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After 10 years and billions of dollars in aid, El Salvador's military has little to show for itself but a reprehensible human rights record that includes forced recruitment of boys as young as 12 or 13; the destruction and evacuation of border peasant villages; arrests, tortures, and disappearances of human rights advocates and civilians vaguely suspected of left-wing activity; and deep, friendly relations with the death squads...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Cold War in Central America | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Wrong. A recent poll of University of Maryland students revealed that 90 percent had sex during their first year in college. The Harvard Independent's surveys, in contrast, show that about half of Harvard students are still virgins...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Romance at Harvard? Yeah, Right. | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, learned something last week about the art of compromise. Earlier, Frohnmayer had announced that he was withdrawing a $10,000 grant to support "Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing," a planned New York City exhibition of artworks inspired by the AIDS crisis. The show was "political rather than artistic in nature," Frohnmayer said. He cited a catalog essay that denounced North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and California Congressman William Dannemeyer, both vocal opponents of gay rights, and New York's John Cardinal O'Connor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arts: Compromising Position | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Reading Locke is probably just as bourgeois as going to The Game, but I think there's a difference. Around here anway, The Game is The Hype, and by going I show that I believe the hype, the same way that some newly westernized Berliners believe the hype about the hundred sausages...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Can't Help Being Bourgeois | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

...Show Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 21 NOVEMBER 20, 1989 | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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