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"Whoever injures us," vowed Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in a speech before the Knesset's defense and foreign affairs committee "we will injure." All week long, the world waited for the seemingly inevitable counterstrike by Israel, or possibly the U.S. against the perpetrators of the Dec. 27 terrorist attacks...
On questions about sex, she has always seemed impossible to embarrass. But last week Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 56, was red-faced about one of her own answers. In First Love: A Young People's Guide to Sexual Information, the country's most famous sex therapist missed an error that would...
While Harvard's administration suffered through its embarrassment last week, the leadership at another Ivy League school, Columbia, was in a festive mood over the elevation of Barbara Aronstein Black from professor of legal history to dean of the law school. Black, 52 and the mother of three children, succeeds...
After a respite of barely a year, with the banality of the refrain still ringing in the ear, "the politics of the future" is back. When Gary Hart announced a fortnight ago that he would retire from the Senate (to run, he all but admitted, for the presidency in 1988...
Asked about the report, Meese replied that any meetings with labor leaders were "not designed or intended to interfere with the proper investigation of organized crime," although the Administration's intent was not the issue. Meese might also have replied that such improprieties have not been confined to the Reagan...