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...Mole in a Maze of Mirrors Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, PBS (Mondays, beginning Sept. 29, 8 p.m. E.D.T.). Except for The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, John Le Carré's convoluted plots have resisted translation into two-dimensional film and television. Now, in what should be the TV event of the season, the BBC proves that Britannia still rules the air waves. PBS's six-part showing of the BBC-co-produced Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is probably the most intellectually demanding-and rewarding-TV series ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Potpourri of Special Fare | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...made by the Fainsod Committee," Dowling says. "The times are very different. When the Fainsod Committee was established, the University was in a period of great disruption, and there was no student voice in College governance. Today, there is a great student voice, and my committee will probably just tinker with things, rather than suggest sweeping changes...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Auditions for the Assembly | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...made by the Fainsod Committee," Dowling says. "The times are very different. When the Fainsod Committee was established, the University was in a period of great disruption, and there was no student voice in College governance. Today, there is a great student voice, and my committee will probably just tinker with things, rather than suggest sweeping changes...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Auditions for the Assembly | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...made by the Fainsod Committee," Dowling says. "The times are very different. When the Fainsod Committee was established, the University was in a period of great disruption, and there was no student voice in College governance. Today, there is a great student voice, and my committee will probably just tinker with things, rather than suggest sweeping changes...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Auditions for the Assembly | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...photocopying machine until someone read a three-page typewritten letter on top that said the big box contained a powerful bomb. The message demanded $3 million and a getaway helicopter in return for instructions on how to disarm the bomb and warned that any attempt to move or tinker with the box would automatically detonate it. The letter was signed: HAPPY LANDING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bringing Down the House | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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