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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger each tend to bristle whenever the other receives greater credit for the 1972 U.S. breakthrough to China. Now China seems to have them at odds again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kissinger Vs. Nixon | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

RONALD Reagan and I have slightly different perspectives on the 1980s. Reagan tends to emphasize the years 1982 to 1984 as the peak of American pride and his own personal appeal. I tend to de-emphasize these years, because I was in junior high school then...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Who Writes History? | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...ACTUALLY fairly unlikely that any one person or group will win. But people tend to describe history as if they already have. Just watch the 3000 review shows about to appear on television, all entitled, "looking back at the 1980s." And ask yourself how you would write the history of the decade...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Who Writes History? | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...agenda" is one of those terms that in U.S. politics tend to mean "new advertisements." But the Radcliffe Quarterly seems like it's supplying a "new look" with substance, putting the "rad" back in Radcliffe. Things are looking...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: The Rad Radcliffe Quarterly | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

Harvard-bound students are a very small proportion of the Rindge and Latin student body, and they tend to be more motivated--if not more privileged--than their peers...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Town & Gown at the School Next Door | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

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