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After all, they say, any amount even close tothe $2 billion dollar goal being considered willput Harvard's last capital campaign record--$350million, set in 1986--to shame...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Prepares For Fund Campaign | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

After all, they say, any amount even close tothe $2 billion dollar goal being considered willput Harvard's last capital campaign record--$350million, set in 1986--to shame...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Prepares For Fund Campaign | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

...international politics, Munich is a word of shame. The 1938 conference at which Britain and France agreed to let Adolf Hitler's troops occupy a big chunk of their ally Czechoslovakia made the city's name synonymous with a cowardly sellout to aggression. So it is no surprise that the organizers of the international conference on the Balkans that is scheduled to meet in London this week staunchly deny they will countenance a rerun. Just the opposite, says British Deputy Foreign Secretary Douglas Hogg: the conferees will "make it absolutely plain to the Serbs that they are not going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Munich All Over Again? | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...societies, men do not consider themselves bisexual or gay unless they take the passive-receptive role during sex. Moreover, sexuality is as much a state of mind as an act of body. People may be attracted to someone but unwilling to act on their desires out of guilt or shame; conversely, others may act contrary to their true feelings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bisexuality What Is It? | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

Smalley worried because he could see a familiar pattern forming, born of his shame over not being able to support his child, the feeling of inadequacy and the strain on his relationship with the baby's mother. He resisted joining the ranks of young black fathers who cut out on their kids because they will not face the pressures of parenthood, but he could not see how to break the cycle -- until he learned from a friend about the Responsive Fathers Program at the Philadelphia Children's Network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Young Fathers the Ropes | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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