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...Yeah, I was thrilled. Part of my present indignation is that I want the world to be a better place now. I think the Americans have the energy and the record and the right to conduct the altruistic crusade. I think it's totally incorrect politically to suggest it, but a new period of altruistic white colonialism is upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Distorted Our Own Minds: John le Carre | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...much the discovery that, because of a mix-up at a sperm bank, Hal may be the father of her child that sends Sarah into orbit. It's the notion that after he is identified and tracked down, this particular white man, so trashy, so hopelessly incorrect politically and socially, could have ^ provided half the genetic material for her talented, pretty daughter Zora (Nia Long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet Nothings | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...current lending system for student loans facilitates this kind of bungling. The reason that my loan for this year did not go through is that Harvard did not sign the forms correctly. The lending institution, in the true fashion of a go-between, wouldn't process incorrect forms and, instead of notifying anyone, just sat on them. The student billing office kept sending my family huge bills, and wouldn't let me register for spring semester until I convinced them "the check was in the mail." Then I started getting the diploma warnings. The correct forms went...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: How the Loan Sharks Ate My Diploma | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...feeling at Harvard that the chairman is representative of resistance would be incorrect," says his spokesperson Col. F. William Smullen. "He was principally concerned about the effect the changing of the policy would have on unit cohesion and morals. We are now working very vigorously to construct a policy to implement the presidential program...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Powell Degree Ceremony Will Be Marked By Protest | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

Robinson believes environmentalists will have to embrace anew the politically incorrect concept of pure preservation for some vital areas. For their part, policymakers must try to guide development away from sensitive ecosystems and toward regions where inevitable losses of diversity are more "acceptable." An economics that accurately accounted for the costs of destroying species would also help. Most likely, though, a sustainable future will not come from policy wonks, but rather from a broad change in values as ordinary people react to ecological disasters around them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sustainable Follies | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

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