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...sometimes the children get too excited. After ignoring repeated pleas by Tamika, the self-appointed leader of the ACT Corps volunteers, to put away their homework and to stop dawdling at the chalkboard, her voice takes on a harsher tone...

Author: By Aby. Fung and Alexander T. Nguyen, S | Title: Cambridge's Area Four: Poverty Tinged With Hope | 5/8/1996 | See Source »

...U.S.S.R. As observers both Russian and foreign point out, Zyuganov can preach it round or flat. He sounds like a social democrat when he meets with Western businessmen and diplomats, reassuring them that he favors a "mixed economy." To the party faithful, however, he puts forth a harsher anti-Western, sometimes anti-Semitic message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96 RUSSIA: THE UNDEAD RED | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...freedom of opinion, religion and information. But the former Soviet constitution contained similar guarantees, all of which were ignored or defined out of existence. Zyuganov is not the communists' strongman, and if elected, he will be expected to carry out the will of the organization, which may be harsher than it admits to being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96 RUSSIA: THE UNDEAD RED | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

...HELMS-BURTON ACT, IMPOSING EVEN harsher trade sanctions on Cuba, is draconian legislation. In proposing it, Senator Jesse Helms self-righteously stated that Canadians should be ashamed of themselves for cooperating with the Castro regime. Let's set the record straight. Canada entered the fight against tyranny in World Wars I and II long before the U.S. did. As for aiding and abetting tyranny, the U.S.--not Canada--has supported such despots as Batista in Cuba, Papa Doc in Haiti, Somoza in Nicaragua and Pinochet in Chile, plus others elsewhere around the globe. The list goes on and on. Enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1996 | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...disturbing for a student newspaper to criticize a policy that benefits students. It seems that opponents of grade inflation would like their classes curved around a B- or a even a C. Their hubris prevents them from realizing that if such harsher grading policies were instituted, they would not necessarily benefit...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Students Too Uptight | 3/21/1996 | See Source »

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