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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Justices' inclination to be dilatory, this year has been no different. At the start of last week, the court still had 43 undecided cases, almost one-quarter of the full term's output. By the end of last week, 20 decisions had been announced in a mountain of opinions, concurrences and dissents. One in particular stirred broad national interest: the Justices took the ball away from the N.C.A.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Taking Away the N.C.A.A.'s Ball | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

...with all great cinema, makes Bachelor Party strangely disquieting, for it raises more questions than it can answer. Does the final marriage scene imply that mankind is saying "I do" to his own self-destruction? Is the consummation of marriage really only an invitation an voyage to the magic mountain of moral turpitude? Or is it just having your chain yanked by the almighty...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: A Working Man's Fellini | 7/3/1984 | See Source »

Often when the most is promised, the least is delivered, but New England was satisfied last week with an unexceptional 111-102 final victory. Bird was named the Most Valuable Player. No city cheers a white star more enthusiastically than Boston. Climbing a mountain the last quarter, Los Angeles approached within three points at 105-102 and had the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Laker Talent, Celtic Team | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

Chester Hickle came back in and offered a stranger a stick and a knife, saying whittling keeps you calm and keeps you out of trouble. The stranger had been reading the newspaper, the Marshall Mountain Wave. Correspondent Sybel Smiley, writing the news from Nubbin Hill, had noted that "we have some very muddy roads again. There isn't any bottom to anywhere now. The sun is trying to shine some, which looks good." Correspondent Rosie Ragland from over at Red Oak reported that "Pearl Davis and I purchased 15 hens from Mary Redman Saturday night." For the record, Ragland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arkansas: Whittling Away | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...smoldering trucks, and the body of an Afghan government soldier (left). Four days later, the rebels struck again with a textbook ambush (above and right). They boxed in a Soviet convoy by firing rocket-propelled antitank grenades in front of the enemy vehicles and behind them. Then, from their mountain hideouts, they rained heavy machine-gun fire down upon their stranded prey. Forty Soviet vehicles went up in flames, and pillars of thick black smoke billowed hundreds offset into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mujahedin in Action | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

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