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...decision for the operation is mine and mine alone," he said at a session so consumed with the Iranian issue that his summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev didn't come up until its midpoint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Decided to Sell Iran Arms | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

Welcome to the midpoint of the 1985-'86 Harvard men's basketball season...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Escaping The Midyear Doldrums | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

Concerns over budgets and arms control remain relatively constant: they came in with Reagan, and will go through his second term. There are, however, many subtle changes in issues and approaches at the midpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Tidings at Mid-Passage | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...first leg of the massive effort to assess more than 360 undergraduate classes has reached its midpoint as the seven member CUE Guide staff puts the finishing touches on the Core Curriculum descriptions...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: CUE Guide Staffers Celebrate Midpoint | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...such simple show-biz pleasures; neither Dot nor the audience gets to go to the Follies. This score is often doggedly mimetic, achieving its pointillist effects note by Johnny-one-note. Nearly every number begins with a staccato verse and chorus; it soars toward traditional musical passion only at midpoint, then withdraws into tart anticlimax. It takes a second or third hearing for ballads like Finishing the Hat, Beautiful and Sunday to betray subterranean seisms of feeling: ironic, wistful, profound, possessed. A heart beats under that starched shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sondheim Connects the Dots | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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