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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, the politicians, professionals and industrialists who sit at the top of our society set a different example, one more reminiscent of the declining Roman Empire. The emperors' disregard for the law and their immunity from its enforcement produced a widespread lawlessness that disintegrated their society. Hopefully we will not go the way they did 2000 years...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Brazen Disregard for the Law | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

BIRDS OF a feather flock together, to coin a phrase. To coin another, less quotable one, when inclement weather impends, birds fly south in search of sunshine and a more pleasant limb to sit...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Divesting of Divestment | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

There was some concern that the 5-ft., 10-in., 205-lb. forward would be forced to sit out this year after his transfer, but a check of NCAA rules showed that since he had been inactive all season, he could wear his Crimson sweater this fall...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Icemen Defy Preseason Expectations | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

...stars, he cooed, "It's only a movie, Ingrid." Maybe Fatal Attraction is just a nine-weeks wonder. More likely, though, it will linger in the American central nervous system. A single woman may have to go to the personals column for her next beau. A married man may sit on his lust the next time an attractive woman says, "Hi." And next time he and his wife go out on the town, he'll pick the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

There is good reason to believe that the bulk of U.S. relief is not reaching those who need it most. Nowhere is the disparity in wealth more apparent than in the San Francisco neighborhood of the capital, where huge houses sit behind electrified barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Riddled with Fear | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

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