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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: May 3, 1982 | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

Amidst golfs lean towheads, a fat man can look good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Along Came a Walrus | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Asked to make sense of Pharaoh's dreams about fat and lean cows and plump and withered ears of corn, Joseph took them as signs of coming events. The Book of Genesis records his forecast: "Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. And there shall arise after them seven years of famine." Pharaoh was so pleased to get a fix on the future that he made Joseph the ruler of Egypt. If Joseph materialized now, politics would make it hard for him to get his old job back, but with his proven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Looking for Tomorrow (and Tomorrow) | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Begin and Israel remain dangerously isolated in the wake of the Sinai cession. Many informed citizens in this country have started to lean tentatively toward the PLO as the seams of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's West Bank policy shows signs of straining. Without the recent oil glut, pressure on Israel would be greater. Sadat's successor Hosni Mubarak, moreover, has indicated his desire to return to the Arab fold and will likely normalize relations with Iraq by the end of the spring. The diplomatic normalization between Israel and Egypt. Begin's main concession at Camp David has cooled...

Author: By Lawrance S. Grufstein, | Title: The Art of the Possibilist | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...blast anti-war demonstrators staged in 1970 to protest the presence of then-Professor Henry A. Kissinger '50 in the building--things were finally stirring in the department. Top scholars were brought back to Cambridge, partly as a result of pressure from the stubborn few who stayed through the lean years and partly to keep up in the academic rat race...

Author: By Christopher S. Wood, | Title: Dollars and Scholars | 4/22/1982 | See Source »

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