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Durkin easily captured the special election, and in his five years in "the club" has become one of the Senate's leading energy experts. He strongly favors the development of alternative energy sources, and sees big oil companies as a threat to the country's future. As to the controversial...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Existentialism in Granite | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

The Corporation--that group of seven all-white, all-male people that run the University, decide what's going to be built where and who will build it and why--has a committee that advises it on investments now. It's called the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and the...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Business of Harvard | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

As the chartered airliners arrived from Key West, the weary refugees streamed off with an empty look in their eyes. They carried all the belongings they owned, stuffed in plastic bags and pillowcases. Some shied away from the military trucks and soldiers at first; they had been told back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Open Heart, Open Arms | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

The campaign so far hearkens back to the British elections during the early 1900s. As Lloyd George reportedly said in parliament, Canadian politicians may have principles, but their first principle is expediency. The Conservatives have conducted an anti-Trudeau campaign, similar to the winning strategy employed last spring. Trudeau, meanwhile...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Trudeau Redux | 1/25/1980 | See Source »

Many of the Republican campaign managers whose candidates trail Reagan have grown increasingly frustrated by Carter's dominance of national attention with his management of the Iran crisis. They feel that whatever chance they have of catching Reagan is being diminished by their own inability to criticize the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Rousing Revival | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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