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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother says she didn't know which was more embarrassing: telling Federal Express she was sending a mangled piece of cloth to her 18-year-old son at Harvard, or insuring...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Bring Back My Blankie | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...have begun to recognize the fact that I am officially entering the latter half of the initial phase of the beginning of the rest of my life. Granted, I don't know what this means yet, but I'll be 20 years old in the fall, and I'm not getting any younger. Why does it bother me so much that I'm beginning to sound like my parents...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Bring Back My Blankie | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...traumatic," she says, "you are never the same again. If you survive two traumatic things, you take a quantum leap in your spiritual self. You're never the same again. Life is looking up. I am a crying towel, but thank God I can do that. I don't know where I'd be if I didn't cry at least once a week." That's the real beat beneath her new album. The faint sound of broken hearts mending. The rhythm of life restored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing In the Crying Towel | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Events in Iran are often fueled by forces that are not immediately apparent. Thus it was difficult to know quite what to make of the verbal missile fired last week by parliament Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a prayer session at Tehran University. Several "big American spies," he announced, had been arrested and would be punished for plotting to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Cry Spy! Cry Wolf? | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...Washington the Bush Administration cloaked its response in deliberately vague language. "My information is, we don't really know what they're talking about," said White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Said former CIA Director Richard Helms, Ambassador to Iran from 1973 to 1976: "If it's true, it's a shame they got caught." At the Brookings Institution, Middle East specialist Yahya Sadowski speculated that Rafsanjani might be using the cry of spies as a way to divert attention from his own political problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Cry Spy! Cry Wolf? | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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