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...trying to relate to it," says Oprah, a lavender dressing smock draped over her shoulders and a stack of clippings and notes in her lap. "Do most people deal with this in their day-to-day lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oprah Winfrey: Lady with a Calling | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

Judis, an editor at the leftward newsmagazine In These Times, fosters this and like assessments without endorsing them. He is more definite in his conclusion: since conservatism triumphed with the election of his pal Ronald Reagan, Buckley has lost his competitive urge. The last lap of the 20th century may provide a new liberal challenger, but until then we are left with a small irony. Reagan, the former actor, entered the White House at about the same time that Buckley, the political activist, began changing into an entertainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cocksure William F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the Conservatives | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

WHILE the report's changes are admirable, they fail to address the chief reason for the K-School's violation of Harvard's ethical guidelines. The report is remarkable for its failure to place the blame where it truly belongs--in the lap of K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Cavanagh sticks to the line that Allison approved the proposed swap late one Friday night without giving it "proper scrutiny." Absent from the report are the crucial facts which rip apart this shallow excuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who's to Blame? | 3/23/1988 | See Source »

...will always yearn for that early spring evening--whether it is in Providence, Minneapolis or Lake Placid--when the team will skate a lap around the rink. And instead of holding up a silver plaque, the squad will be holding a gold one for all those whose blood runs Crimson...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Ice is Nice | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...accident that the two sit at opposite ends of any platform; any closer, and the friction could set the place on fire. When Bush lapses into his gee-whiz optimism, that rosy outlook that comes from having everything dropped into his lap, Dole looks as if he wants to stuff a sock into Bush's mouth. When Dole makes one of his sardonic asides that let observers know he is above the low company he is temporarily keeping, Bush appears so offended by the impropriety of it all -- no one made sharp remarks at the Bush family dinner table -- that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Same Substance, Different Style | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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