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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethics in government, Dukakis would be wise to follow Carter's lead. Carter's one ethical liability, Bert Lance, was never convicted of any crime. This administration certainly outdid his record with its influence-peddling officials, ideologues-gone-astray, and just plain crooks--from Michael Deaver, Lyn Nofziger, and Edwin Meese to Oliver North, John Poindexter, and William Casey to Anne Gorsuch, Rita Lavelle, and Raymond Donovan. Carter got Lance to resign, even after he was found innocent, while Reagan ignored rampant corruption...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Jimmy the Duke | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

...such explosive growth? "For starters, you don't have to carry an instrument around," says Katherine A. Kennedy '88, a member of the Radcliffe Pitches, the only all-female a capella singing group at Harvard. "But basically people like it because its just plain fun-fun to listen to, and fun to perform, especially in front of the larger audiences...

Author: By Christopher G. Azzoli, | Title: Harvard's Vaudeville: Groups Hit High Note | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

...There are plenty of other ways of doing clinical work on a less extensive scale, like the Jamaica Plain Clinical Center, where you only do clinical work for a semester," Agoglia says. The Law School also places students in other legal service centers around the Boston area...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Taking the Law to the People | 4/20/1988 | See Source »

...Whatever happens tonight, that's fine with me," Cruz remarked while they were waiting. "Three hundred and sixty-five days of the year I'm plain old Steve Cruz, the guy who drives his truck up to construction sites. But tonight I'm going to be the One and Only Steve Cruz, Live at the Apollo. Winning would be nice, but being out there and singing, that's good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amateur Night In New York: Triumph and Terror at the Apollo | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...other major American architects. He looks like a gracefully aging tennis pro (tanned, fit, intense) and sometimes sounds like a Jungian therapist ("I get clients to explore their fantasies"). He lives in neither of the two U.S. Architect Belts (Boston-New York- Philadelphia, Los Angeles-San Diego), but in plain, out-of-the-way Albuquerque. His work is not strictly modernist or postmodernist, classical or avant-garde; the pigeonholes do not apply. Predock, a self-described "cosmic modernist" who senses the "emanations" of a particular building site and says only half jokingly that he "would rather talk about UFOs than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: An Architect for the New Age | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

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