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...happens every day in battle zones around the world. Children as young as eight fight enemies they do not know for causes they barely understand. War does not rob a child of youth so much as it reveals his innocence: ignorance of death and a nervy imperviousness to danger, revealed in a boy's grin when a mortar shell falls close or in his eagerness to fire when instinct should tell him to duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Warriors - Afghanistan - Northern Ireland - Burma - Los Angeles | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

MASTER BUILDING ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN. Mike Dukakis and Rob Lowe aren't the only ones with bittersweet memories of the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. For two years, visitors to that city have been paying a 2 cents surcharge on hotel and motel rooms to retire the $15 million tab for hosting the party. Two weeks ago that magic sum was attained, but the surcharge remains; now the goal is to help pay for the $210 million Georgia Dome, a spanking new facility that will host the 1994 Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Jun. 18, 1990 | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: Tickets, based on NCAA policy, will be on sale at the gate for $5 for adults and $2 for fans under age 12...Seniors Chris Bentley and Dave Kramer will be reunited with their Cold Spring Harbor High School teammate, Notre Dame attacker Rob Lynn. Harvard assistant Rich van der Broek '88 will be reunited with former teammate and current Notre Dame goalie Coach Mark Vita '86...It is the fourth year that the NCAA has admitted a team from the West or Midwest as the twelfth seed. In past years, Michigan State has lost the first round game...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Laxmen Look to Limit Luck of Irish in NCAA First Round | 5/16/1990 | See Source »

...course we should establish relations," says Rob Pfeiffer, a high school counselor in Oakland, Me. "We're pretending Vietnam just doesn't exist." An official in the Maine chapter of Veterans for Peace, Pfeiffer says his fellow members support recognition as a means to gain more on-site information about the effects of Agent Orange. "Open it up," says McClellan. "If we established relations with China, why not with Vietnam?" Former antiwar activist Anne Weills, who created a furor in 1968 when she went to Hanoi with a delegation that brought back three American prisoners, comes to the same conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam 15 Years Later | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

Harvard's 'B'-side was entered in the Division II Invitational on Sunday. Leading the Crimson was freshman Rob Santos, a newcomer to the sport who also played defensive back on the freshman football team...

Author: By Christopher Sanzone, | Title: Ruggers Sent Home Early in New England Championships | 4/24/1990 | See Source »

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