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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most important for the intellectual health of the University, the attitude toward the inclusion of African-American faculty as a legitimizing factor for the Black person and the Black intellectual tradition (not to mention the research which suggests their critical role in the matriculation of Black students) may be a bellweather of openness to other trends...

Author: By Ronald Walters, | Title: Conservatism Closing the Mind | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

Jones ended the season with a second-place finish in the 10k. The eight-person field came down to two runners, Jones and eventual winner Jackie Goodman of Oklahoma State. Jones and Goodman finished 15 seconds ahead of the third-place finisher...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Harvard Snags Ninth In Track Tournament | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

...think [the other runners] stopped thinking of me as a Harvard runner, but as a person who can run even though I don't go to a big track school," Rainey said. "It may have been a little tough for them to swallow, the fact that Harvard runners beat them. But I think we gained some respect after it was over...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Harvard Snags Ninth In Track Tournament | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

...from the Latin, meaning "about a day." The sleep-wake cycle is the most obvious, but the body's production of hormones also fluctuates significantly over 24 hours. Says Charles Ehret, president of General Chronobionics, a research and consulting company in Hinsdale, Ill.: "Chemically, you are a very different person at noon than you are at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Times of Your Life | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...Congress was ceding too much legislative power to the smaller, indirectly elected Supreme Soviet. With the Congress preparing to elect a President to a newly restructured and more powerful office, Sakharov urged that the leading candidate, Gorbachev, be required to defend his record. "I do not see any other person capable of leading our country, but my support is conditional," said Sakharov. "I believe that discussion is necessary and that the candidates should give a report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: USSR Presiding over a new Soviet Congress, Gorbachev gets a clamorous lesson in democracy | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

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