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There is, however, another and more hopeful view. We are arguing instead of fighting, whether at the United Nations, where President Reagan appeared last week, or through the printed statements that rolled off the Kremlin presses in response to Reagan. In this day of cataclysmic weapons, is the pen proving mightier than the Minuteman and the SS-20? Opinions are cautious and contradictory. Still, there has been born in these past chaotic weeks a small idea that more energy, time and wealth are being spent on persuading than on military maneuvering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Using Words as Weapons | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...district of a so-called magnet school, featuring specialized programs in the sciences, arts or humanities along with a core curriculum. Its purpose: to achieve integration by creating an inner-city school with an irresistible claim to academic excellence. Waller High School in Chicago, once a mere holding pen, was transformed by District Superintendent Margaret Harrigan into Lincoln Park High. It has a school of science with a college-level course in biochemistry, a school of languages that offers French, German, Italian and Spanish, and a school of arts that offers everything from the Stanislavsky acting method to Baroque music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bold Quest For Quality | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

PENN 21, BROWN 20--The Quakers are no flash in the Pen, and the Bruins couldn't even topple Princeton last week. Still, this one will be close...

Author: By Michael D. Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Somewhere on the Road | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

...combination of public apathy and the government's traditional mat pen rai (never mind) attitude has for years hampered efforts to save the city. But now Deputy Prime Minister Phichai Rattakul is leading a movement to design an antiflood master plan. Thirty-two projects have been approved so far. It is estimated that the entire plan will be completed in five to ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Rescuing a Sinking City | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

Still, Deputy Prime Minister Phichai is determined to solve the problem. Says he: "Even if it would cost 10 billion baht [$435 million], I don't mind." Others fear that the project will fall victim to post-monsoon mat pen rai. Predicts one specialist on flood control: "After autumn, after the rains, they will forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Rescuing a Sinking City | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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