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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solution is to abandon cash for cash's sake as the senior gift's goal, choosing instead to fund a specific, perhaps moderately-priced, project. Seniors could honor their graduation by helping to build a recreation room in a lower-income neighborhood...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: To Give or Not to Give? | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

Acting against the recommendation of a lower committee, the Undergraduate Council leadership on Wednesday cleared the way for consideration of a resolution calling on the nine all-male final clubs to let in women...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Council Reconsiders Final Clubs | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

Legalizing narcotics would strip the gangs of their incomes and reasons for violence. This move would deliver a crippling blow to organized crime, and the lower costs of drugs would ease the pressure on addicts to get money...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Ending the Drug Prohibition | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

...tacky mural of the Lower Manhattan skyline served as backdrop. The band's version of Theme from New York, New York compensated in decibels for what it lacked in finesse. The ballroom of the thoroughly lived-in Omni Park Central Hotel was too small and too warm for the hundreds crammed together like rush- hour commuters on the A train. But the atmospherics last Tuesday night mattered not at all. Chants of "Duke! Duke! Duke!" alternated with cries of "Let's go, Mike!" And when Michael Dukakis paused before speaking, his usually constricted smile was as broad and welcoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marathon Man | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

This scheme gets in the way when, instead of simple, flat images, he tackles scenes with a deeper space. In a painting like Battery May 5, 1986 -- black, smudgy figures on a promenade in lower Manhattan, a plunging perspective of lamps on the seawall, a livid yellow sky -- the recession is brusquely contradicted by the surface grid of vinyl tiles; the image struggles to break back from the picture plane but cannot. It is a self-canceling effect but not an interestingly perverse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Toward A Mummified Sublime | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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