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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush and Congressional leaders should not correct a flaw in the health care system by deepening a flaw in the political system. They should create a prenatal care program which can have a long and healthy life...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Healthy Life for Infants | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...student protest. It remains unclear whether this can be best attributed to bravery on the part of the students, or the unwillingness of adults to protest given the threat of government repression. It is deeply rooted in our national psyche that to be truly patriotic entails risking one's life. But the idea also dawned on many minds, in the dark years when people were deprived of their lives in humiliating circumstances, why not make a statement before you perish? Such is the attitude that hundreds of thousands of Chinese are now taking in the wake of Saturday's tragic...

Author: By Mansu Qian, | Title: China's Great Awakening | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

When Wilson takes over the Radcliffe post on July 1, she will have to guide a school that has changed dramatically in the years since Horner was chosen. During Horner's tenure, Radcliffe has ceded control of undergraduate life--academic and residential--to Harvard, while more than doubling its endowment and expanding its research programs...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Wilson Selected as New Radcliffe President | 5/31/1989 | See Source »

While some have said they thought the new president should be a scholar who would actively engage in undergraduate life, other Radcliffe affiliates have said that fundraising ability should be the new president's main qualification. Many also stressed the importance of picking a president known for speaking out on women's issues...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Wilson Selected as New Radcliffe President | 5/31/1989 | See Source »

...hostage for 17 days by gunslinging hijackers. Among the most horrifying images in the intense TV coverage: the body of U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, 23, being dumped onto the tarmac. Last week, after a ten-month trial, a Frankfurt court sentenced Lebanese-born Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 24, to life in prison for his role in the hijacking and Stethem's murder. Unable to determine whether Stethem was shot by Hammadi or a second hijacker, still at large, the court ruled that Hammadi was accountable as an accomplice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Justice for Flight 847 | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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