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...mistaken in believing that in order to respect the privacy of people, it is not "appropriate for the college to note the occasion of the death" in a more public, college-wide way. The opportunity as a community to mourn the departed can help us to realize how much our lives combine. With this realization we have a better chance, both individually and as a group, to seek to improve the lives of those who remain...

Author: By Peter C. Coharis, | Title: A Time for Searching | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Detroit Policeman Raymond Cruz of City Primeval (1980), for instance, is mistaken for a high school shop teacher by a girl he tries to pick up in a bar. Ernest Stickley Jr. is a dour Oklahoma hick who, in Swag (1976), conducts a doomed 100-day armed-robbery career. Resurfacing in Stick, seven years and a prison stretch later, he has scarcely improved; he worships Actor Warren Oates and thinks disco is dynamite. But, like all of Leonard's main men, deep down he is as incorrodable as a zinc bar and as heady as the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dickens from Detroit | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...admission led De Lorean's attorneys to request a dismissal on the ground of destruction of evidence. Tisa returned to the stand the next day and claimed he had not destroyed evidence. "You mean you lied yesterday?" challenged Weitzman. "No, I did not lie," Tisa said, "I was mistaken." He said that he had only disposed of "personal working notes" and that he had accidentally dated some entries 1983 although they were written in 1982. The agent admitted that he had been vehemently chastised by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry for his careless testimony the day before. Said Tisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime and Punishment | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...Finally, the BLSA's account of the vulgar disruption by some Jewish students at last year's talk is mistaken in one crucial respect. They state that "Neither the Dean nor other members of the faculty spoke out against this disruption and violation of free speech". I know that Muhammad Kenyatta knows this account is in error, for he has commented favorably to me about a letter I published in the Crimson strongly criticizing this disruption, and I supported the BLSA's concern for presenting Palestinian issue at Harvard. Prof. Dershowitz also criticized the HJLSA's disruption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLSA | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...education of a TV anchor to the buying patterns of Hispanic migrant workers, that jump confusingly from page to page after page. At its best, the Times can be as informative and interpretive as any daily in the English language. At its worst, it seems to reflect a mistaken notion that readers want to spend all day with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Ten Best U.S. Dailies | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

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