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...served as secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation from 1941 to 1943, and as rose from the rank of 1943, and rose from the rank of Army from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Ed School Dean Dies in Stillman at 73 | 2/21/1990 | See Source »

...took the next flight back." But God left a couple of things behind: the gift of magic -- black magic or white, and every rainbow shade in between -- and the curse of belief in it. Women levitate as they give birth; the veils of dead brides float in the rank breeze. Proud, loving Hatidza (Ljubica Adzovic) has the power of healing, and her grandchild Perhan (Davor Dujmovic) can do a few telekinetic tricks too. We won't even discuss -- because they come at the end of this beggar's banquet of a film -- the walking outhouse and the killer fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A People Cursed with Magic | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...radical left been satisfied with Gorbachev's preference for staying close to the center. Party committees toppled as rank-and-file Communists vented their anger at local apparatchiks who were flaunting their privileges at a time when everyone else had to wait in line. Just before the plenum, Gorbachev got an earful from a delegation of miners, many of them activists in last summer's wildcat coal strikes. One worker advised him, "You need to determine more precisely just whose side you are on in this battle." Gorbachev seemed surprised at the criticism, asking, "You mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Parties Begin | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...Hath Rank No Privileges? Many Harvard cognoscenti suspect that Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 is the administrator who really runs the University. But apparently Steiner's name doesn't pull much weight with the folks who distributed tickets for the Beanpot tournament at the Boston Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

...Hath Rank No Privileges? Part 2 Steiner's seal of approval also did not carry much weight with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this week. At a meeting this week, the full Faculty voted to send back to his office major sections of a report on free speech guidelines prepared by Ford Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. Steiner's office has already reviewed the report twice, but there's always room for improvement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 2/17/1990 | See Source »

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