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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford Professor of Social Science emeritus David Riesman '31 calls academic departments: "Efforts to draw lines which are unrealistic, and only in the mind." But the professor is quick to point out that those imaginary lines are also the very real parameters which shape intellectual disciplines...

Author: By M.d. Nolan, | Title: Drawing Lines: From Social Relations, to PSR, to Psychology | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

...kissing by a bubbling brook, riding over pastoral fields and playfully tickling each other in the hayloft. Reminiscent of a more modern Love Story whose protagonists played touch football in a snowy Harvard Stadium, these sequences are much more effective than the written word in capturing the quick, physical passion of adolescent love...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Legendary Love Story | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

While Beck controlled the match and was ahead in the last period, 10-2, he appeared exhausted in the last minute and gave up five quick points...

Author: By C.j. Georges, | Title: Cornell Bats Matmen | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

NAMFREL has devised "Operation Quick Count," a monitoring network that relies on sheer numbers. It has recruited 150,000 Filipinos to oversee each step of the elections. Operation Quick Count will start early on election day: voters are being urged to turn up at 7 a.m., when the polls open, to make certain the ballot boxes are empty. Last week, however, the Commission on Elections said it would not allow foreign reporters or "unauthorized" observers to come within 150 ft. of polling places. Says a U.S. expert who traveled to the Philippines last month to study the election process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Keep It Clean | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Dismayingly little was yet known about what was happening in the war itself. The beleaguered President, Ali Nasser Muhammad, 46, apparently made a quick trip to nearby Ethiopia, possibly to secure arms and ammunition, then returned to South Yemen, where he was reported to be assembling a force of 40,000 soldiers and volunteers in the Abyan region, his stronghold to the east of the capital. Rebel radio broadcasts rarely referred to Abdul Fattah Ismail, the former President who was thought to be leading the rebellion, thereby fueling speculation that he had been killed when fighting began two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Yemen Apocalypse Now In Aden | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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