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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next time you walk in the shadow of glass and steel skyscrapers that tower over cities from Boston to Baton Rouge, mutter a little prayer of thanks--or even a curse--to Harvard's Graduate School of Design...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: America's Tower of Architectural Power | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

...next time you walk in the shadow of glass and steel skyscrapers that tower over cities from Boston to Baton Rouge, mutter a little prayer of thanks--or even a curse--to Harvard's Graduate School of Design...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: America's Tower of Architectural Power | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...grenade explosions made a charnel house of the Jewish house of prayer, where worshipers were arriving for Sabbath services. Dismembered bodies lay among wrecked rows of chairs. All the victims had been shot, Akbulut said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorists Storm Turkish Synagogue; 21 Worshippers Die in Suicide Attack | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...Tehran have been chronically short of such staples as butter, rice and lamb. Even economic hardship, however, can serve the regime's interests. Authorities promised one man who was desperate to obtain a TV set that he could have a place on the waiting list -- provided he attend three prayer sessions and three progovernment demonstrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Death to Just About Everything | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...young Jew had come from America to Israel for his Bar Mitzvah at Jerusalem's revered Western Wall. Wrapped in a prayer shawl and wearing phylacteries, he recited the Torah blessings flawlessly and with that he became a man in the tribe of Israel. But this Jew, Little Sun Bordeaux, also belongs to another tribe, the Teton Sioux, and claims to be a descendant of Chief Crazy Horse through his paternal grandfather, Chief Eagle. Tribal elders dispute the claim, saying Crazy Horse had no children, but Little Sun's mother Armalona Greenfield insists, "Chief Eagle told me, and he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 1, 1986 | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

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