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Still, the productions were mostly brief and small-scale, the livelihood far from lavish. "The least hint of the starving-artist routine," he recalls, "did not behoove my immigrant legacy of belief in education and upward mobility." In 1983, when he was 26, Hwang suffered the sort of crisis of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HENRY HWANG: When East And West Collide | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

But, in the hours that followed, the mission proved short-sighted, even misguided. Israel should not be blamed for the apparent murder of U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins by terrorists, even though the execution was in retaliation for Obeid's abduction. There is no question about that. The question...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: How Could Israel Not Know? | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

Arguing that the basic proposal was still intact, Shamir called Labor's impending withdrawal "misguided." Labor leader Shimon Peres countered that "there is no reason to remain in the government," but invited Shamir to "retract" the appended conditions, which include barring East Jerusalem's 140,000 Palestinian residents from participating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Why Is This Man So Glum? | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

The comments by Campanis, who was fired a few days later, were disturbing in themselves (he went on to say the Blacks couldn't be good swimmers because they were not "bouyant"), but the misguided beliefs and attitudes they reflect are not rare in the world of sports.

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Barriers For Blacks in Professional Sports | 7/18/1989 | See Source »

Last week a somewhat different version of the speech appeared in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. There was no reference to Poland, but Deng said that "some comrades don't understand the situation" in China, in that the revolt was not merely the work of "misguided" people but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China The Face of Repression | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

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