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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For centuries Iceland has been far from the vortex of global affairs. Even the story of its founding illustrates its distance from the rest of the world. In 874, so the legend goes, the Viking chieftain Ingolfur Arnarson tossed some wooden pillars out to sea, vowing to settle the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ideal Weekend Getaway | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

If Cornell can't beat the Crimson today, it seems unlikely that it will be able to handle Brown or Penn later on in the season--meaning this Big Red Machine would be headed for the middle of the Ivy pack.

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Week Four Looms Large in Ivy Picture | 10/11/1986 | See Source »

Rhonda J. Roberts '86 had similar reasons for leaving. "I left because I was starting to burn out. Things were beginning to have no meaning for me," Roberts says. "What good does it do to go to class and take note without knowing how what you're learning affects other...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Getting Away From it All | 10/9/1986 | See Source »

The central trouble seems simply that too many parents have forgotten that freedom gains meaning from restraint. In this they are creatures of their times. For thousands of years, various, and very different, definitions of freedom -- Aristotelian, Cartesian, Augustinian, Kantian -- have all related freedom to significant choice. Over the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Freedom of the Damned | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

The speech, at 8:15 in Sanders Theater, isentitled "Some Considerations on the Meaning ofthe Rules of Law.

Author: By Melissa W. Wright, | Title: Top German Philosopher Habermas Argues Linkage of Law and Morality | 10/2/1986 | See Source »

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