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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April 28--The Corporation announces it is "fully committed to carrying out in letter and spirit" the Faculty's resolution...
...late Will Durant, the Book-of-the-Month Club's ubiquitous historian, once observed that "no man who is in a hurry is quite civilized." Time bestows value because objects reflect the hours they absorb: the hand-carved table, the handwritten letter, every piece of fine craftsmanship, every grace note. But now we have reached the stage at which not only are the luxuries of time disappearing -- for reading meaty novels, baking from scratch, learning fugues, traveling by sea rather than air, or by foot rather than wheel -- but the necessities of time are also out of reach. Family time...
Some legal authorities have already called for prosecution according to the letter of the law. If North, Bush and Wright are guilty, these wimps argue they should be sent to jail. Never mind that "jail" would probably be some cushy condominium near a golf course where the "criminals" could write their memoirs and make millions. Never mind that J. Danforth Quayle would wind up president of the United States...
...letter yesterday to Defense Secretary Richard Cheney, Gejdenson warned that eliminating what was expected to be the last of the Los Angeles class series could endanger smooth production of the next generation of attack submarines and cost the Navy money in the long...
...response, Blumenfeld said he wrote a letter to Rather saying that he "finds the words irresponsible" and that his statement "implies that adults are guilty...