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...occasional shrillness because she is being herself and not someone else. In winning at a man's game, she has managed to retain a naturalness and warmth. If she is to add to the ticket-and enlarge politics itself-it will be not because she was able to transform herself into another Walter Mondale but because she was able to be at once a national politician and a woman. -By Evan Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just One of the Guys And Quite a Bit More | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...small, sleepy town of 30,000. Then a huge building program was launched by the Redditch Development Corp. (RDC), which was created by Parliament as part of a British government-financed program to encourage people to move from large cities into the countryside. The strategy worked well enough to transform Redditch into a thriving city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate: For Sale: One Town | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...pick Jackson as a Vice President unless Jackson abandoned his pro-Arab tilt. Jackson, for his part, has been blasting Hart and Mondale equally for supporting the "supplyside economics" and "gunboat diplomacy" of President Reagan. He was swinging wildly and becoming increasingly moody and erratic as he tried to transform his flailing political crusade into a one-man peace movement. He has fired off a telegram to Syrian President Hafez Assad demanding the release of two Israeli diplomats, and proclaimed that he would venture to Nicaragua, Cuba and Africa. In a most unseemly move last week, he traveled to Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Call, and Out Reeling | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...thwarting of Goodbye Massoud was the most recent, and perhaps the most daring, success of the CIA's operation to assist the embattled guerrillas. Like most of the world, the U.S. was outraged when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and proceeded to transform it into a puppet state. That shock, together with widespread sympathy for the mujahedin, has not abated as Moscow has tried to consolidate its tenuous control over the nation by resorting to carpet bombing, chemical warfare and outright massacre of civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Caravans on Moonless Nights | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...transform Harvard, we ignored politics, our militant action probably had little effect on the War in Vietnam, and we did not even enjoy ourselves very much. Is there anything that can still be said today for our part in the 1960s...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Getting the questions right | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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