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THE MOST disturbing thing about the Hart scandal is not that Americans want a monogamous president or that the Miami Herald chose to print its story. Instead it is this country's preoccupation with the details of Hart's personal life, details that go way beyond the particulars of the...

Author: By Joshua H. Henkin, | Title: A DisHartened Country | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

Having just returned from the dead, however, I must tell you that both theories are false, as is every other afterlife ever conceived by the mind of man. Death does not involve angels, or houris, or ace bandages (well, perhaps ace bandages--more on this later). Nor does it have...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Chiller Theater | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

"Do you think I'm unyielding?" he asks Dean Garrett playfully, clasping a fist to the back of his center's neck. "No," Garrett answers sheepishly. "Am I unyielding?" he turns to Forward Daryl Thomas. "No, sir." It is the eve of the title game, and the press invites Alford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Basketball's Knight-Errant | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

The majority of America's one million homeless are people who have, for one reason or another, become detached from the fabric of American society. They are the victims of alcohol and drug abuse, the mentally ill, the uneducated and the unskilled, all trying desperately to make some sort of...

Author: By Andrew J. Sussman, | Title: Helping Harvard and the Homeless | 12/4/1986 | See Source »

Since the Second Vatican Council concluded in 1965, dissension has become widespread among Roman Catholics in the U.S. Time after time priests, sisters and lay members alike have publicly and sometimes defiantly questioned policies and dictums emanating from the Vatican. But since he became Pope, John Paul II has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unreservedly Loyal to the Pope | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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