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Another American diplomat based in Africa is concerned that with expectations raised by events in Eastern Europe, Western countries will demand < too much of Africa too soon and that desperately needed aid and debt relief will be hitched to an unrealistically rapid schedule of political change. "Are we going to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa Continental Shift | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

One of the items in the bag stolen from the dental clinic in Gorky was a letter about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, then vanished when the Soviets occupied Budapest. Soviet authorities have maintained that Wallenberg died in prison in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sakharov: The Wallenberg Mystery | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

The message from the New York City association reminds us that what matters is not who you are, but where you went to school. To The Club, Harvard isn't just postsecondary education. It is an institution that trains the elite to run the country, and in the process, helps...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: The Harvard Club Is Calling | 5/2/1990 | See Source »

Unfortunately, being stamped "made in America" does not always connote the quality or garner the respect that it once did. However, I am loathe to think that we should continue to allow systematic targeting resulting in the demise of U.S. industries to persist, while the door to the Japanese market...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Japanese Investment in the United States Is No Laughing Matter | 4/17/1990 | See Source »

Nothing is wrong with comfortable clothing. It's just that current usage is more reflective of a slavish conformity than a desire for ease. No generation has strained harder than ours to affect a casual, relaxed, cool look; none has succeeded more spectacularly in looking as though it had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Decline of Neatness | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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