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...teammates last year for his dedication to the books, the social studies major hopes to one day go to Law or Business School--preferably, and fittingly, across the River. And, always thinking ahead, Keane intends to remain at Harvard next summer to take some courses that will ultimately lighten his load in the senior year when he will be wrestling with a thesis and his own self-styled efforts at Olympic training...

Author: By Caroliner R. Adams, | Title: Brian Keane | 2/27/1981 | See Source »

Three new shows to lighten the cold-weather blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midwinter Night's Dreams | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff in a last-ditch effort to save 7,000 jobs. British public expenditures in Northern Ireland, including the cost of security operations, average $3,200 a year for each of Ulster's 1.5 million inhabitants-a burden the government is anxious to lighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: New Plans for Sharing Power | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...marriage in three now fails. The state gives women some help in the form of child care and maternity leaves, but that is hardly enough to ease their dual burdens. One solution being advocated by an increasing number of women: part-time jobs, and plenty of them, to lighten the load and allow a little more breathing space for self-development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Sexual Equality--More or Less | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

Sergeant A.M. Valnikov (Robert Foxworth) is of Russian descent, and so, perhaps, comes by his chronic melancholia naturally. A recent divorce and - it is gradually revealed - his investigations of a particularly ugly series of child murders have done nothing to lighten his mood. He is in fact drinking his way into early retirement. Sergeant Natalie Zimmerman (Paula Prentiss) is a brisk, no-nonsense sort of woman, very proud of the fact that she has finally got her life perfectly organized. She keeps protesting her assignment as Valnikov's partner, though everyone (except perhaps Valnikov) under stands that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cop Song | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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