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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interests as threatened by the challenge to Panamanian democracy. So why is Washington so obsessed now about democracy in a country barely larger than West Virginia? And why is it apoplectic about the ouster of a dictator whom it comfortably did business with for many years? The answers rest less with quantifiable strategic and economic interests than with U.S. credibility and prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Panama Worth the Agony? | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Breakneck economic growth over the past decade has created enormous possibilities for malfeasance and laid to rest the Communists' revolutionary ideal of a simple, selfless existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Million Chinese Demand Deng Resign | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

Come reading period, everyone stops laughing. Grinds' outrageous study habits serve to shame the rest of us who have barely cracked open our postmidterm reading. I ran into a friend in Lamont last weekend who had meticulously prepared 20 (count-em, 20) biology review pages in four colors. This did not make me laugh. This made me tense...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Placing the Blame for Tension | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

Neither did the rest of the squad, until the last two games of the season. Finally, the offense clicked, and New Hampshire and Dartmouth were the victims...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Breakin' Out 'Til Next Year | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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