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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facts were not new, but the judgment stung all the same. Six months after Edwin Meese declared himself "completely vindicated" by a special prosecutor's decision not to indict him on charges of misconduct, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility last week issued a scathing report on the former Attorney General's ethics. Its key conclusion: if Meese were still in office, "disciplinary action" should be taken against him for "conduct which should not be tolerated of any government employee, especially not the Attorney General." Among Meese's misdeeds cited in the report: doing favors for chum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: The Last Word On Meese | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

Hundreds of students sign up for pre-vacation plagiarism courses sponsored by Harvard Student Agencies. For a fee of $45, including drinks in the last session (with valid i.d.), students learn how to plagiarize more effectively without getting caught. Former head of McLean Hospital Shervert Frazier serves as special guest lecturer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Remains of 1989 | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

...fresh attention after the Emperor fell ill in September. When his death halted regular programming for two days, Japanese television devoted extensive coverage, including rarely seen war footage, to Hirohito's career. But Japan seemed disinclined to indulge in an orgy of self-examination. Viewers bored with the special shows flooded video-rental stores across the country. Many Japanese worry less about an old war than about who will foot the $74.4 million bill for Hirohito's funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan A Delicate Burial | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...montage of Jackson's career ("a retrospective of 24 years of hits"), Moonwalker includes some nifty clay and cutout animation, as well as a "centerpiece" spun out around Michael's superbly spooky song Smooth Criminal. Jackson becomes, literally, what so many people have already accused him of being: a special effect. All of Moonwalker is heavily shrouded in fantasy -- of persecution, of reprisal, of reclaiming lost innocence -- but compromised by its own willful and slightly desperate flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Magical Tours | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

West German officials may have dug in their heels in part because of what they called "a media campaign" in the U.S. Bonn took special umbrage at a New York Times column by William Safire calling the desert chemical plant "Auschwitz-in-the-sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany On Second Thought | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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