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...total agreement with Hugh Calkins' estimation of the Harvard Corporation's lack of ethical concerns--who with any sense in their head would expect anything but profit and power considerations from a corporation? So in this sense the fasters join every other justice-minded, moral human being on this planet who desires change in the face of insurmountable odds. I guess that means they're "ineffectual," "naive," maybe even a little crazy. But somehow it also seems clear to me that doing something--anything--to protest and bring to public attention a situation which assaults the conscience and the heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Fast | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

...cannot really do business with the Soviet Union. They see it as self-deluding to think the West can compromise in the military rivalry. While committed to the deterrence of nuclear war, they pride themselves on being hard-headed enough to prepare for the possibility that ultimately this planet may not be big enough for both superpowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's in Charge Here? | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...name over your tongue. Julio Iglesias. Better get used to it, because if the "Spanish Sinatra" and his press agent, Superflack Warren Cowan, have anything to say about it, the name is about to become as familiar in the U.S. as it is just about everywhere else on the planet. Over the past 15 years, Iglesias, 39, has reportedly sold some 70 million albums worldwide. But you'd mention the name Julio Iglesias to most Americans and they'd say, "What?" At least until this past winter, when Julio started a U.S. publicity blitz, having paid Cowan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 11, 1983 | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...storms on the face of the sun that periodically reduce its radiation) or even planetary alignments. Currently, much of the theorizing centers on El Chichon, the Mexican volcano that erupted last year and ejected huge clouds of dust into the atmosphere. By obscuring sunlight, it may have upset the planet's heat balance enough to disturb the atmosphere and oceans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tracking That Crazy Weather | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...Happy Days, Adrian Zmed, 29, did commercials for Thorn McAn shoes and Flair pens before co-starring with William Shatner in ABC's T.J. Hooker, and Peter Barton, 26, was seen parading around in bathing suits in Penthouse mag azine before he became the visitor from a distant planet in NBC's The Powers of Matthew Star. Hexum also appeared in magazine ads before stepping into a TV show, the time-traveling Voyagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: In Hollywood, the Year of the Hunk | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

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