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Even on sunny days, it has a dingy look to it, heightened by the rows of vagrants that line the foyers of its shops and restaurants. Once a busy commercial center at the heart, the square has been hard-hit by a regional recession, and today many of its concrete...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Fighting to Keep A Square Alive | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

Stress takes its toll on civility. A brutal assault by the Burmese troops that September left 40 Burmese and two Karens dead and made something in Major Than Maung snap. A few days later, a journalist visited Komura and found the major resting quietly in his bunker, surrounded by dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Junior Rambos | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

Though finding accessible housing remains a problem for Fond du Lac's disabled, the city has made progress in opening some public accommodations. Movie theaters have removed rows of seats to make room for people in wheelchairs. Several service stations offer to pump gas at no extra charge for disabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Doors for the Disabled | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Young Tim went to Regis, a Jesuit high school that admitted only the brightest kids. As he remembers it, "One night in June they called a meeting of all new boys and their parents. The principal got up and said, 'Note that I start at 8 o'clock, not one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY HEALY : New Page For an Old Bookworm | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

A single unshaded bulb hanging from the ceiling provides the only light in Floresti's dark and musty village hall. The first half a dozen rows are occupied by about 40 farm workers who are listening to a candidate from Romania's National Peasant Party promise the return of all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romania Two Cheers for the Front Runner | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

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