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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong. That stuff they serve us in the Union is not necessarily food, and is therefore quite possibly inedible. Ah well, only one semester of Union food left, then we move into Houses where the meals might be edible...Kathryn Partridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Rare Treat | 1/14/1982 | See Source »

Reagan has risked diminishing what little effect the sanctions might have. Said one Moscow-based Western diplomat: "Face it, the Soviets can buy most of the stuff they need from other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanctions as a Symbol | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...have much to say about the works themselves, and, in fact, Nabokov ignores The Brothers Karamazov altogether. When, in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov kills an old woman "for some reason or other," Nabokov asks, "Who cares?" He passes off all Dostoevsky's characters as either neurotic or insane, the stuff of "pseudo-literature...

Author: By Christopher S. Wood, | Title: Taking Revenge Against Raskolnikov | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...that stuff (half-court heaving) all the time at school," said Clay after the second half had begun and attention was again focused on the Crimson's struggle...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Beloit Bomber | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Rupert Murdoch, the Australian newspaper mogul, bought the afternoon Post in 1976 and knew exactly what he wanted to do. He moved it away from the traditional role of the afternoon paper--providing the day's developing news, with lots of commentary and business reporting--and turned to the stuff that neither television nor the more respectable print outlets were doing. The Post went heavily into crime ("Gutsy Hell Camp Victim Foils Thugs"--a story about a mugging of a concentration camp survivor in yesterday's edition), sentiment ("Medal for New York's bravest little girl...") and gossip (at least...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Day The News Died | 1/8/1982 | See Source »

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