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Friends also said Kinsley had wanted to move back to Washington, D.C. from New York and rid himself of a post which had caused him to have several widely publicized disagreements with the magazine's chairman, who once fired...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Kinsley-Resigns Harper's Post To Pen New Republic's 'PRB' | 5/5/1983 | See Source »

...think it was a waste of some of the good intellectual resources of people in the study group," Mendelsohn added. "I think Harvard could have performed a real service by giving us a book outlining what steps must be taken to get rid of the bomb...

Author: By Chuck Lane, | Title: Ivy Students, Faculty Split on Nukes | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...work or his personal life other than that he was "highly efficient" in the former, and "a bit invisible" in the latter, has begun to sport an carring. This upsets Horton so much that he throws up, and he appoints Savage to "persuade" the employee to get rid of the earring by threatening to fire him. In fact, the employee is not homosexual, us Horton feared, but only incredibly naive, and when Savage cleverly lures him to a gay for he sees the folly of his ways...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Character Assassination | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

...faculty," Wilson recalls. But without the political turbulence of the era, the qualifications of ROTC professors would never have become an issue. "It was a very emotional time, where people weren't thinking very clearly." Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes remembers. "The whole act of getting rid of ROTC was purely emotional...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: A Campus in Revolt | 4/23/1983 | See Source »

...insure that moderates succeeded the dictator. A power-vacuum evolved, Cardenal claims, not unlike the one in 1917 Russia, and "the wrong people took the prize." What Cardenal cannot understand is Congress' reluctance to put pressure on the Sandinistas. "The United States did the right and noble thing getting rid of Somoza. Why all this hesitation about the Sandinistas? It is the same problem...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: The Trouble With Nicaragua | 4/23/1983 | See Source »

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