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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gathering of 1,300 supportive but nervous businessmen in Manila, Aquino was feisty, sarcastic and uncommonly firm. Said the President: "The question you all really want to ask is Can she hack it? Isn't she weak?" She proceeded to argue that she was strong. "Henceforth, I shall rule directly as President," said Aquino. "To the ad hoc committees and commissions created to inform me on their special areas, I add one more: an action committee of one member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Mean Momma | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...Angeles youth. As the title suggests, the characters are intellectual and emotional ciphers. Ellis' documentary intentions are clear, but his laconic descriptions of numb fornications, pharmacological excesses and teenage nihilism come dangerously close to violating Mark Twain's third rule of writing: "That the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yuppie Lit: Publicize or Perish | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...voila, a new era in R&B and pop music shall be born...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: The Right Time For Flyte Tyme | 10/9/1987 | See Source »

...first drawing of Iranian blood by American forces produced sharp warnings from Iran that the Great Satan would be punished. As regular troops and Revolutionary Guards paraded through Tehran to mark the seventh anniversary of the gulf war, Khamenei vowed in New York that the "United States shall receive a proper response for this abominable act." U.S. military and diplomatic posts were placed on a worldwide alert against terrorist assaults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Act | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...people which they already possessed. It would "contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted," Hamilton wrote, harping on the irony of the situation. Unfortunately, such double protection might do more harm than good, as Hamilton pointed out in The Federalist #84. "Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?" he wrote. Such a declaration could only afford overzealous rulers "a colorable pretext to claim more [powers] than were granted...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Just as the Founders Feared | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

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