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...everyone saw it that way. Lansky's first goal was to muster support from some of the large Jewish organizations with headquarters in New York City. "They all said the same thing: 'Yiddish is dead. Forget it.' " He refused to. Instead, he resolved to scratch along on whatever he earned, and packed off to Maine to work as a migrant blueberry picker for the summer. He made ( enough to have stationery printed. "I had a picnic table and a Government- surplus typewriter. I sat down and started putting out press releases saying, 'If you have old books lying around, send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amherst, Massachusetts | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...chess and scuba-diving clubs fall into that category, thereby entitling her group to equal recognition. The high school disagrees, insisting that the clubs are in fact curricular extensions. The Supreme Court will now sort out the precise meaning of the act and consider whether it passes constitutional muster. Critics claim that by condoning religious activity in the interest of free speech the statute impermissibly establishes religion and prayer in public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Prayers in The Schoolhouse? | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...Bush can muster "the vision thing," he should apply it to the development of a new internationalism, a new geopolitics that prepares the West, and perhaps the West and East together, to manage the looming problems that will make the chapter now beginning every bit as challenging as the one, mercifully, coming to an end. Whether the new period will be known as the Gorbachev era belongs to that category of unanswerable questions on which it is better not to waste time. But whatever the next stage of history comes to be called, there is no question that Gorbachev...

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

...Southern African Solidarity Committee, which in 1985 routinely drew hundreds of committed students to its rallies, was this fall able to muster less than 30 for a candlelight vigil on essentially the same issues...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Harvard in the Eighties ...350 and Counting | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...Holy Cross flame was heating up. Blaneypoured on some extra lighter fluid. You know, thekind you use on the Fourth of July. Roby reachedfor his, but it was gone. All he could muster upwere some spare icicles that were hanging from theHarvard bench

Author: By Andy Fine, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Streaks | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

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