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Indeed, both men and women have a stake in the future of RUS. In the past years of lame student government, RUS has provided a steady supply of money for a variety of worthy student enterprises. It has helped the Black Students Association (BSA), for instance, and has also regularly helped underwritten such diverse institutions on campus as the Women's Clearinghouse and the annual Carribbean Club spring carnival. The Clearinghouse would sorely miss RUS; administrators recently eliminated the budget of the women's counseling and referral service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Shenanigans | 9/24/1982 | See Source »

...Pulley, San Quentin's warden, says as much: "There's nothing to ensure that when an inmate gets out and passes by the 7-Eleven, he won't decide to rob it. That's basic to America, the opportunity to make choices." Inmate Marion Chaney does not make lame excuses. He has four more years to serve of his fifth Texas prison term. "If I am dumb enough to get in here again," he says from behind a wall of steel mesh, "boy, I'll tell you, I'll deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are Prisons For? | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...have legs of steel at the box office, the film's producer has come up with a co-Caped Crusader: Richard Pryor, 41. In a part the folks at DC Comics never dreamed of, Pryor plays Gus Gorman, a computer wizard who dons tablecloth and skis for a lame demonstration of his own superpowers. Sm3 takes mild-mannered Clark Kent back to his high school reunion and a rekindled romance with Lana Lang, played by Annette O'Toole, 30, (Cat People). O'Toole may be beautiful, but her co-star is hot, and as Director Billy Wilder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 13, 1982 | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...MUCH of too many good things spoils Sununer Lovers, which despite a lame plot could have been a pleasant $4 tour of Greece's gamiest nude beaches. But Director Randal Kleiser, now the undisputed king of schlock summer flicks, has lost all sense of moderation, and this film quickly becomes boring and annoying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Misbehaving | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...Madrid must make tough decisions to help the floundering economy. He will have to continue the 17-point austerity program belatedly begun by the lame-duck Lopez Portillo administration. Among the targets: a reduction of the government's budget deficit from 15% of the G.D.P. to 3% by the end of 1985, import restrictions, government hiring freezes and probably a hike in Mexico's heavily subsidized energy prices. The current price of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico: Will the New Broom Sweep Clean? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

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