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...just a terrible building," said Joseph Sakey, director of the Cambridge Public Library, who added that the structure is decaying and deserves to be torn down. He described Harvard's representatives as "responsive" to his preference that a new, larger library be built as part of the project, but said he had not received any formal guarantee...

Author: By Michelle D. Tanenbaum, | Title: Faculty Housing Is Slated For Site of Library, Studio | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...couldn't, you couldn't, you just couldn't," she says with the fervor of a healer that no one ever imagined dwelled in that 100-lb. frame so elegantly clothed and coiffed. "When you talk to those kids and you talk to those parents who are just torn apart, what it does to these families, and what it -- I mean it's heartbreaking." Her voice cracks just a bit, tears come to her eyes, and she apologizes. She is no Eleanor Roosevelt in health shoes, no Lady Bird Johnson rafting down the Rio Grande or Rosalynn Carter with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: It's Morally Wrong | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Ronald F. Thiemann, a 39-year-old Lutheran minister, said he would work to weave together the practical and theoretical strands of religious scholarship that have been torn apart during the past century...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Divinity Dean Plans Revamping of School | 10/2/1986 | See Source »

With less than three weeks until Commencement ceremonies, a group of seniors circulates a petition asking the University to forcibly remove the shanties if they are not torn down voluntarily by graduation...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: A Chronology of Divestment Activism at Harvard | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

Encompassing 160 different ethnic tribes scattered across Africa's largest country, the 22 million people of Sudan, two-thirds of them Muslim, have never had much unity. Indeed, the nation has been torn by civil war in one form or another ever since it began preparing for independence from Britain and Egypt in 1955. That year a band of southerners took up arms to fight for secession from Khartoum. In the 17 years that the Anya Nya I (Snake Venom) movement was active, more than 500,000 died. In 1975 the rebel cause turned into Anya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan War Is Better Than a Bad Peace | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

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