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...WINTER'S TALE. Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Reeve, Alfre Woodard and Diane Venora top an impressive if imperfect off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's fable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 17, 1989 | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...successfully mounted a series of programs, or even that its courses find favor with experienced practitioners does not mean that its faculty has yet devised an ideal way to prepare students for responsible jobs in their profession. No curriculum ever achieves this aim in full--education is too imperfect a process for that--and many faculties are further from the goal than their presidents would like to admit. But it is particularly unlikely that a young professional school embarked on an ambitious new strategy will manage in two decades to build a truly satisfactory curriculum. For this is a process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Report Excerpts | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Bundy said, the United States will spend less on expensive, high technology weapons systems such as the B-1 Stealth Bomber and the proposed space-based missile defense shield known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which he said would provide an "admittedly imperfect defense...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Bundy Talks of Need For Arms Reduction | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

Amid more than a dozen lawsuits, much has come out about the vast scandal, but most Greeks believe there is far more to be revealed -- by one man in particular. Given his central role in the affair, Koskotas' version of the dirty dealings could prove to be an imperfect account. Apparently nothing will be resolved until the public has weighed his tale. "At this point," says a frustrated former PASOK member, "we are all waiting to hear what Koskotas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals The Looting of Greece | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Seated in the coffee shop of a London hotel, the stocky, goateed 61-year-old Iraqi businessman tortures his well-worn black worry beads. "I don't want to lie to you," Ihsan Barbouti tells the interviewer in his charmingly imperfect English, then adds disconcertingly, "and I don't want to tell you the truth also at the same time." Asked whether he ever dealt in deadly weapons, he says, "I have done nothing bad. I don't deal with arms. Arms dealing is the opposite of my character. But I don't deal with something else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Weapons The Mysterious | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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