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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They say a little learning is a dangerous thing. Ask Todd Patterson. He had just finished the sixth grade in Franklin Lakes, N.J., when he began compiling his own encyclopedia of all the nations of the world. He wrote to embassies -- including the Soviet Union's -- for information. Enter the FBI, which began investigating the boy and kept at it until it had built up a 17-page file. Now an 18-year-old high school senior, Patterson brought suit in May against the FBI to get access to the files. Last week a federal judge threw out the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: That Will Teach Him | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

...avant-grade director said editing is crucial to determining the impact of images...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Avant-Garde Filmmaker Explains Montage Work | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...have lived in a racially-mixed neighborhood since 1973. By fourth grade, several of my closest friends were Black. Almost every week, I heard a racial slur in high school, with other students invariably joking about the appearance or the alleged "stupidity" of Blacks. When and if the headmaster found out about such incidents, he would give us a lecture about how this sort of slur was a denial of human dignity. But few of my classmates paid any attention...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Failing to Heed the Church's Call | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

Warren Sonbert is considered to be one of the most prominent avant-grade film directors in the United States. and will present a series of his recent works this afternoon at the Carpenter Center. Sonbert, whose works have recently been shwn at the New York Film Festival and at the Anthology Film Archive, will discuss his works after the showing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts on Campus | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

...what FTD would want us to think of as the perfect Valentine's Day, but what the heck do they know. Roses may wilt, but address books--and fourth grade--are forever...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Of Valentine's Day and Cooties | 2/14/1989 | See Source »

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