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The excerpts were chosen by TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, who translated and edited the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev. The latest project required a special approach, Talbott says, "precisely because it does come from the world of espionage, where deception and illusion are commonplace. Those of us working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Feb. 18, 1985 | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

An annual focus of attention among housing officials, the allocation formula is based on a tricky combination of past trends, current space, and guesswork. The latter, not surprisingly, is the hardest part, basically a prediction of how many students in a particular House will decide to take a leave the...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: The Spring Ahead | 1/30/1985 | See Source »

- Stanley likens the initiation to "trying to jump onto a spinning merry-go- round: you close your eyes and leap." Leaping into the Inaugural preparations, she discovered that "finding out which orchestras will play at which balls is almost as tricky as finding out which staff members will follow James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Jan. 28, 1985 | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Gardner then slowed the rotation and, much as in the first retrieval, maneuvered the stray toward the arm. There, in a foot restraint, Allen waited to grab the antenna on Westar with his right hand, while his left gripped the antenna support. Gardner cut loose, thrust over to the bay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Rounding Up the Runaways | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Among the first to speak out strongly in the classroom was Uncle Harry, who came to life in 1978 in a model program titled the Child Assault Prevention Project (CAP); it was Iput together by a fledgling group on shoestring grants for schools in Columbus after a local second-grader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Facing Up to Sex Abuse | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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