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For more than two hours last Thursday, rain fell on the crowd of 2000 assembled to witness the grand finale of the Medical School's week-long Bicentennial celebration. But as the assemblage of deans, faculty members and representatives from 69 world medical schools rose to begin the recessional, the...
Reagan marred his case, however, by inexcusable mishandling of economic statistics. In his news conference, he made at least two flat misstatements: that "for four quarters we have seen a growth in the gross national product" (this measure of national production has dropped sharply in two of the last four...
The remainder of the civilians were led off by the militiamen in the direction of Beirut's nearby sports stadium. As they approached the bomb-damaged structure, an explosion attracted the attention of Israeli army officers. The Israelis quickly took charge of the captives, sent the women and children...
"If we have to fight again another day, then we'll fight again another day," insisted Jesse Helms, the conservative North Carolina Republican who lost a bit of his reputation as a mover and shaker in the Senate by failing to win passage of the antiabortion bill. "We'...
"TRON could be one of the five or six biggest films of the summer, grossing $30 million to $50 million," says James, a lifelong movie buff with a philosophy degree from Yale and an M.B.A. from Harvard. "But that matters less than that it won't be the blockbuster...