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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Shattuck, Harvard's vice president for government and public affairs, also attributed much of Harvard's fundraising success to alumni support...

Author: By Matthew A. Saal, | Title: Harvard Receives Most In Non-Federal Funding | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...watched him traverse the entire length of Lowell House dining hall. At some tables he went slowly as he met with success; at others he struck out with entire groups and quickly moved...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Questioning the `Majority' | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Magnus Pym shares much of the author's vita, including absentee parents, an unhappy public school education, academic success at Oxford, literary ambitions and a foreign-service job. But there is a speculative quality about the character. What if, Le Carre seems to suggest, David Cornwell did not break away from the murky world of cold war espionage to become an acclaimed writer? Might he have ended up like Magnus, middle-aged and distorted by a past that makes him good at his job but useless as a husband, friend and father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Tale of the Acorn and the Tree a Perfect Spy | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...Beginners is a pretty little cheat. It promises a larkish tour of London in 1958, the year Britain discovered both rock 'n' roll as an anarchic force and teenagers as a voracious new consumer class. Colin (Eddie O'Connell) is a bright lad who hits the Top 40 of success snapping pictures of mods and trads; Suzette (Patsy Kensit) is a proto-Twiggy fashion model- designer. Sade, Ray Davies and the snakily elegant David Bowie appear in elaborate production numbers--upmarket rock videos, really--and Julien Temple, a master director of the short music form, revs up the visuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sore Glums Absolute Beginners | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...severe cases of endometriosis, surgical removal of the ovaries and uterus may be the only solution. But less extreme surgery can often help. At Atlanta's Northside Hospital, Dr. Camran Nezhat has had success with a high- tech procedure called videolaseroscopy, which employs a laparoscope rigged with a tiny video camera and a laser. The camera images, enlarged on a video screen, enable Nezhat to zero in on endometrial tissue and vaporize it with the laser. In a study of 102 previously infertile patients, Nezhat found that 60.7% were able to conceive within two years of videolaseroscopy treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Career Woman's Disease? | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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