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"I'm so glad I know how to do the swing now," said Louisa Oliver '90. "Otherwise I'd make such a fool out of myself on Saturday--I took dance lessons in seventh grade, but we never learned the swing."

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

The information unearthed reportedly transcends the discoveries of the Tower commission. "People were very careful," says one prober of the Iranscam schemers. "But they left a great paper trail." Some of the most important evidence, however, was not on paper but on computer tape: the White House has provided investigators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress's Case | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

The 1983 Marine-barracks bombing in Beirut, in which 241 servicemen died, was a tragedy of a new order for a Corps that had long ago grown inured to more than its share of casualties on the battlefield. Afterward the investigation by the Long commission faulted the Marine command for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And To Keep Our Honor Clean | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

I'M NOT ABOUT to say that Platoon, Oliver Stone, Marilee Martin, Paul Newman, or Michael Caine didn't individually deserve their statuettes. But taken together, the fact that five sentimental favorites won major awards says something strange about the Oscars. The Academy seems to have given up the ghost...

Author: By Eric A. Morris, | Title: Sentimental Favoritism | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

With just over a month to go, the front runners, not surprisingly, are Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Majority Finds a Way | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

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