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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contrary to popular opinion, final club members are sensitive to the way other Harvard students feel about the issue of admitting to the clubs. Believe it or not, final club members are not all sexist men intent on continuing a tradition merely for the sake of doing so. Final club members are also progressive thinkers who are actively involved in and concerned about life at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Clubs | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...want of a letter m, David Burling, 19, is a free man. On trial in Hastings, Neb., last week for possession of with the intent to deliver 49 capsules of the psychoactive drug Ecstasy, Burling was acquitted on largely lexicological grounds. The state legislature misspelled the drug's chemical name when it passed the bill that outlawed it in 1986. Thus Burling could not be convicted of possessing the substance specified by the lawmakers. The correct spelling is methylenedioxymethamphetamine, not ) methylenedioxyethamphetamine as the law had it. Next time they ban a drug in Nebraska, they'd better consult a pharmacological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: It's Ecstasy - with an M | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...action and reaction, stability is often in the eye of the beholder. Albert Carnesale, a widely respected nuclear strategist, wryly observes that "weapons are destabilizing only if they are your adversary's." The difference between an offensive first-strike weapon and one useful just for defensive retaliation "lies in intent only," says Carnesale. Yet often weapons are introduced largely because the technology is available, rather than to meet essential strategic requirements. As George Bush considers how to proceed with SDI, Stealth and the START talks, the standard he must apply is the quest for stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Sides of the Nuclear Sword | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

While grownups are busy becoming children again, children are intent on becoming grownups. In addition to the play pots and pans and stoves that cook, there are plastic telephones and radios. Above all, children are drawn to the "action figures" and fashion dolls, which allow them to invent grownups over whom they have complete control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: What Do You Want from Santa? | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...same breath, however, she criticized the Yonkers decision as activist and in opposition to the original intent of the "straightforward and simple" civil rights laws of the 1960s...

Author: By Joseph C. Tedeschi, | Title: Just Action in Yonkers | 12/7/1988 | See Source »

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