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...York City character, he finally lands his own network TV show, only to find himself at the end of a very long line. In New York, for instance, the Friday edition of his late-night talk show does not air until Monday. Then a viewer has to outlast an ABC Monday-night football game that usually wraps up after midnight, a half-hour local newscast, Nightline with Ted Koppel and Nightlife with David Brenner before Breslin's mug finally appears on the screen, somewhere around 2 a.m. The graveyard shift has so annoyed Breslin that he complained about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Late Nightlife Tonight Show | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...This is a program we hope will long outlast the 350th," said Harvard Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck. "We have often--too often--taken for granted what the community means...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Harvard Endows Fellowships | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

While the men were able to outlast the Tigers, the women did not fare as well as they fell to 5-5 overall and 1-3 in the Ivy League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swordsmen Sail at New MAC | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...tung but bounced back in 1978 to begin dismantling Maoism. Not long after Deng came to power, he told a gathering of top officials that choosing his successors was "a task of century-long significance." Since then, he has taken every possible precaution to ensure that Dengism will outlast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Successor Generation | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...highest levels, Deng has tried to ensure that his reforms will outlast him by weeding out opponents or gently moving them to the sidelines. In 1981 he eased out Party Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng, Mao's choice for the succession, and installed in Hua's place General Secretary Hu Yaobang. The premiership, which Hua also held, went to Zhao Ziyang, the former governor of Sichuan. Last July, Propaganda Chief Deng Liqun, who had missed no opportunity in recent years to reaffirm "the purity of Communism," was ousted from his post. Deng Xiaoping has defanged other neo-Maoists, or "whateverists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Revolution | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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