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WHAT ARE HARVARD'S best and brightest reading? Which books occupy a special place on their mantles? What makes Matina Horner tick? Enquiring minds like ours want to know...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: An Insubstantial Book | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

Often underestimated Celtics Coach K.C. Jones, the sidekick guard who accompanied Russell to eleven college, Olympic and pro parades, likes to tick off the essential reasons he considers Bird the "best total player" ever. "Attitude. Determination. Understanding. Hustle. He's also got some talent." So much of it, according to Supersub Bill Walton, 33, that teammates have to combat a powerful impulse just to stand and gawk. A sizable but unsturdy slab of alabaster, Walton was once breathtakingly Bird-like. Now he is the handiest extra man on an exceedingly deep team that chanced to lose just one home game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A 16th Flag in Sight | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...Chapman, Anthony J. Libardi, Irene Ramp (Deputies); Arthur Hochstein, Renee Klein, Leonard S. Levine, Billy Powers, Barbara Wilhelm (Assistant Directors); Carol March (Designer); Nickolas Kalamaras Layout: Steve Conley (Chief), John P. Dowd (Deputy), Angel Ackemyer, Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, James Elsis, Jay Petrow, Nomi Silverman, Kenneth Smith, Eugene Tick Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead May 12, 1986 Vol. 127 No. 19 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...then again, she was married and I'm not. The way I see it, I've got two, maybe three years left before I have to start heeding the tick of the statistical clock. By then, I'll just be starting graduate school. I can see it now, sandwiched between hours in the Law Library and reading up on torts in my room, I can schedule search and destroy sessions in which I'll telephone, write to, visit or similarly network all the eligible males of my acquaintance in the hope that one of them will finally crack. Actually, things...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Playing the Odds | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...final days of the campaign tick away, the level of political tension engendered by the battle can only increase. So too will the diplomatic challenge for the U.S. To the Administration's credit, policy toward the Philippines is more coherent than that on any other recent foreign challenge of similar magnitude. In contrast to the situation in Iran during the final days of the Shah, U.S. diplomats are in close contact with the opposition. Unlike Central America, the Philippines has created no major divisions between Congress and the White House, nor among the various Executive departments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Test for Democracy | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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