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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the garbage contract is renegotiated, recycling will offer a rare opportunity to marry social consciousness to financial self-interest. And if the prospect of financial gain and the satisfaction of being environmentally sensitive do not galvanize Harvard behind a long-term committment to recycling, then the University's role as educator should...
Reporters at the Herald Examiner, Los Angeles' No. 2 daily, are used to having doors shut in their faces. After the editors announced earlier this year that they would publish a series of tough articles on the city's problems during Mayor Tom Bradley's campaign for a fifth term, the paper's reporters were barred from the mayor's office. But that did not stop them from scooping their powerful rival, the Los Angeles Times, by printing damaging reports about Bradley's finances just three weeks before the election. Last week, however, Herald Examiner staffers faced a far more...
...those hurt most by the Sandinistas. Even the U.S. is uncertain how strongly to back her. While Ortega is one of Bush's least favorite heads of state, lavishing U.S. resources on a lost cause could succeed only in making Ortega more difficult to deal with in a second term. Still, the U.S. will spend $9 million to support the election, giving some to U.N.O. and some -- by Nicaraguan law -- to the Sandinista government...
...Each term students, most of whom are at a fifth-grade reading level, receive a course description and sign a contract stipulating that they understand what is expected of them. Most have a study plan designed just for them, which means teacher Goldhaber instructs five students in as many subjects at once. While the method appears old-fashioned, classroom dialogue seems drawn from experimental theater. At his right hand, Goldhaber pores over pictures with one student, saying, "Yes, this is an ion, but is it just an ion or a hydroxide ion? Think about it." He asks the student...
...time for the official campaign for Nicaragua's national elections approached, the ruling Sandinistas faced a unique prospect for a Marxist regime: the chance of winning a new term in office through open and honest balloting. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had been nominated for re-election in a splashy party convention, and he launched a surprisingly effective grass- roots campaign, while opposition candidate Violeta Barrios de Chamorro got off to a pathetic start. Best of all, the 10,000-man army of insurgent contras, deprived of U.S. military support, was skulking in Honduras under a regional peace accord ordering them...