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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canada's Expo 86, which originally anticipated 13 million visitors, expects 7 million more as a result of terrorism fears, Davis said. "Instead of going to France, they'll visit the French pavilion" at the Expo, he said...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: Experts: Tourists Overreacting to Terrorist Threat | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

Cyrano de Bergerac By Edmund Rostand Translated from the French by Brian Hooker Directed by Brian Backus At the Leverett House Old Library Through...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: The Nose Has It | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...trio of soloists. De Beauvoir epitomized the French bourgeoisie. Her father was a lawyer and a non-believer, but her mother insisted on a stern Roman Catholic education. It did not have the desired effect. At twelve the child decided, "I no longer believe in God," and resolved to study philosophy at the Sorbonne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mandarin and the Thief Simone de Beauvoir: 1908-1986; Jean Genet: 1910-1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile, full professors' salaries jumped from an average of $31,723 to $45,693, enabling the philosophy department to hire away professors from Harvard, Princeton and Yale--"pretty good pedigrees," observes Chairman Peter French. Calgaard claims that Trinity's excellence runs across the board, and notes that, thanks to the endowment, Trinity will charge a relatively modest $6,960 for the coming school year. As a result, he says, Trinity can strive for "elitism that is academic rather than socioeconomic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Hot Colleges on the Climb | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...Behind every great fortune there is a crime," wrote Honore de Balzac, and Swiss bankers seem to be concluding that the French novelist was right. Less than one month after freezing the bank accounts of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Switzerland last week took similar action against Haiti's deposed dictator, Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Baby Doc's Cold Cash | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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