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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading; and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form; be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate"; "Be specific"; etc. They mean it. The illustrations needn't of course be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Response | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

...vast maple dance floor. Impressive crowd for three in the afternoon. Mostly old people. Here and there one partner looks so infirm it must be like dancing with a bedpost, but it doesn't seem to cramp the active one, who twirls like a top, shaking a mean leg in the bargain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Celebrating an Eternal Prom | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...lance Journalist Robert Sam Anson, who had once covered the civil rights movement and whose son was a student at Exeter. On assignment from LIFE, Anson set out to discover how a young man like Perry, who seemed launched on a trajectory of success, could come to such a mean, abbreviated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Worlds BEST INTENTIONS: THE EDUCATION AND KILLING OF EDMUND PERRY | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...with the Soviet Union, have responded gingerly to Radio Moscow's threats. "The Soviet Union itself knows it faces no danger from Israel," declared Foreign Minister Shimon Peres last week. Israeli officials privately spread the word that the Jericho II has a range of only 500 miles, which would mean it could strike Arab capitals but would fall short of Soviet territory. At the same time, however, it is believed that Israel is working on a longer-range version that would indeed bring the southern edge of the Soviet Union within its reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armaments Battle of Jericho | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...their misgivings about the proposal, U.S. officials believe Gorbachev's offer could prove the basis for an eventual compromise if tricky disputes over on-site inspection of nuclear facilities, including virtually ) unannounced visits to operational centers, can be resolved. As National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci put it, "If they mean what they say, it has removed something of a major obstacle." One thing the U.S. will insist upon is "conversion" rights, allowing the redeployment of cruise missiles from bases in Europe to warships in the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Promising Soviet Ploy | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

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