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...thinks that a stroke of a president's pen could heal the wounds that have developed at the Law School over the years. But a few choice words from Bok could have dealt realistically with the factors that went into the Dalton decision and spurred a long-overdue faculty discussion on tenure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Wrong Questions | 3/17/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps what Hernandez and Parker really objected to was the stringent penalty forcing them to donate 100 hours to community service. Talking to misled kids is peanuts compared to the license plates they would have been making in the federal pen if they had not been protected by their all-star status...

Author: By Eli Karsh, | Title: Cocaine Keith and Powder Parker | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...when we offered Kinsley a chance to write for TIME, he could not resist. "After a decade of writing for a magazine with a circulation of 100,000," he says, "a magazine of close to 5 million looks pretty tempting." The pieces he will pen for TIME each year will appear in the Essay section, though Kinsley does not describe himself as an essayist. Once, while criticizing Financial Expert Felix Rohatyn, Kinsley wrote that one "laughably easy" way to earn a reputation as a philosopher is to "refer to your own writings as 'essays,' not articles." Says Kinsley: "I write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 22, 1988 | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Most inmates of the state penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., are run-of-the- mill, old-style cons. But a few may have switched to high-tech crime, diverting prison products for profit. When a trailerload of cotton rolled out of the pen, its weight seemed in good order on the institution's computer records. Yet two weeks ago it was discovered that when the cotton arrived at a nearby gin, it was light by more than 90,000 lbs. The missing cotton, worth $20,000, seems to have been shipped elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Snitch a Bale Of Cotton | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...when the game ends, they head back to the Crimson locker room to catch a closer glimpse of Cleary, Bright's own ringmaster. Or they'll wait with program and pen in hand, hoping for a Harvard player--any Harvard player--to come...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Bright Smiles and Dreams of Hockey Stardom | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

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