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...Indonesian diplomat in Tokyo dismisses this concern as exaggerated and self-serving. "Sure, we remember the militarism and imperialism associated with the Rising Sun in the '30s and '40s," he says. "But this is the '90s, and the threat is Saddam and his ilk. The Japanese are using our hang-ups as a cover for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Japan and the Vision Thing | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

This conservative ilk should always be welcome in the Republican Club, as every member of this campus should be, but must not be left free to dictate its policy and agenda by extreme and incisive means. That's my opinion. Couldn't that also be the truth? David R. Ackley '91 Vice President, Harvard Republican Club

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conservatives Against AALARM | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

...likely she--is a sneaky little character who has managed to worm into the Harvard bureaucracy with a detailed agenda. What precisely this agenda entails is not exactly clear, but it seems to somehow involve and effort to discredit "moral" values--i.e., those held by Peninsula, AALARM and their ilk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tilting at Windmills | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...story of The Mandrake, a play by Niccolo Machiavelli, best known for his political tract The Prince. It is a story that neither the author nor the director and cast of this Cabot House revival have managed to make more interesting than the many, forgotten plays of this ilk...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Unjustified Machiavelli | 4/20/1990 | See Source »

From Bess Myerson's messy romance to Malcolm Forbes' birthday party, from Roseanne Barr's backstage tempests to William Hurt's palimony trial, the private doings of public figures preoccupy the supposedly serious mainstream press. Decades after Walter Winchell, Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper and their ilk went the way of the dodo, their patented elixir of career hype, marital comings and goings, feuds, fortunes and celebrity pratfalls has become the journalistic cocktail of choice. In the great public circus of American life, gossip is back in the center ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gossip: Pssst...Did You Hear About? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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