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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to hear this amazing thing my pre-med roommate told me last week? Here it is. Take any triangle; assume it's a right triangle for simplicity's sake. OK. Now, measure one of the sides of the triangle you've taken. Now measure the other side. Now multiply the length of the first side you took by itself. Now do the same with the second side. OK. Now measure the third side. OK, now you've made a clean sweep, measuring-wise. Now, multiply the measurement of the third side by itself. (Oh, by the way, make sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boring | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in the controversial case Regents of the University of California v. Allan Bakke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Landmark Case Goes to Court | 10/12/1977 | See Source »

...warned against the tendency of Government and business to act as adversaries. More businessmen in Government service, he suggested, might reduce the friction. Argued Lance: "There are things that only business can do, and things that only Government can do. Government must be open and responsive and willing to hear what you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: An Ovation For Bert | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...love with it, the Countess cleverly has it reinterred and saves her marriage. In Musgrave, the statue is Ariadne, but only her pedestal is found. The Count is seduced by her laments, which only he -and the audience (Ariadne's music is on pre-recorded tape)-can hear. He redeems himself through a sort of Wagnerian metamorphosis in which he firs thinks of himself as Theseus, then realizes that the Countess (splendidly sung by a young newcomer, Soprano Cynthia Clarey) is his real-life Ariadne after all Ariadne is a delightful romance, and a the final curtain last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Musgrave Ritual | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...California Supreme Court ruled 6 to 1 last year that Bakke was the victim of race discrimination, and the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the university's appeal Oct. 12 in the most publicized civil rights case of recent years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Doctored Program | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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