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Females now abound and the lack of maid service means messier dorms. But despite these changes, returning alumni said yesterday that Harvard looks much the same as it did did 25, 35 and even 50 years...

Author: By Carolyn J. Sporn, | Title: Coming Back To Cambridge | 6/5/1990 | See Source »

Could the Bush Administration's savings and loan bailout get any messier? Yes, in ways never imagined. In a surprise court victory last week, the ailing Olympic Federal Savings of Berwyn, Ill., convinced federal Judge Royce Lamberth that the Government's Office of Thrift Supervision currently has no power to seize the S&L. Reason: acting OTS director Salvatore Martoche and his predecessor, M. Danny Wall, were never constitutionally appointed to their posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAVINGS AND LOANS: A Bailout with No Bucket | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...East. But NATO is at best a stopgap until something more up-to-date and effective can be devised to take its place. The Western alliance was invented to maintain the standoff between two giant blocs. But the great ideological divide of the Iron Curtain is giving way to messier divisions among nation-states and nationalities within states. NATO is simply not constituted or equipped to deal with trouble between two highly uncomradely Warsaw Pact members, Hungary and Rumania, or between two feuding republics of nonaligned Yugoslavia, Serbia and Slovenia. NATO should be maintained during a period of transition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking The Red Menace | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...Trottier, Bossy and Gillies. Gretzky, Messier and Kurri. Stastny, Stastny and Stastny. Gretzky and any two guys...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Daddy? What Were Sports in The 80s Like? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

Forty years ago this Sunday, Mao Zedong stood on a balcony overlooking Tiananmen Square and said, "The Chinese people have stood up, and the future of our nation is infinitely brighter." Infinitely messier is closer to the mark today. The economy's course is uncertain. Provincial and municipal governments will surely pursue their own interests despite efforts to restrain them. The party, with its ideology bankrupt, offers only order and is begging for faith -- and not getting it. How long can a government like that retain control and stay in power? "A regime that . . . is forced to fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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