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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University should fully divest if diplomatic tactics fail. There is no reason for Harvard to associate with a company whose practices are unethical. While South Africa was never any different, Harvard now has a second chance to use its wealth and influence for good, and it should...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Blue Smoke and Mirrors | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

Representatives of the Athenaeum Group argued in a position paper distributed last night that the parking freeze did not apply to their garage because they planned to use it for employees' and customers' cars without charging fees...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Council Recommends Against Garage Permit | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

...librarian supplies directions: take that elevator there, cross the lobby, take another elevator to A-level, and, bingo, you're there. But the second elevator has a sign on it: OUT OF SERVICE. PLEASE USE ELEVATOR AT OTHER END OF BUILDING. The stairs are handier, but they lack directional signs and so lead the uninitiated to an underground garage. Back up one flight, through a vast, empty room, into another room containing only a security desk (unattended), just in time to see the ostensibly broken elevator arrive (let's call it Kira's law: cosmic jokers all come out when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: A Guide to Discomfort Stations | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...line drew large cheers. Sam Donaldson, poking back for the Doonesbury cartoon, told Brountas, "We can't use that." But, of course, he did. On the flight back to Boston, press secretary Dayton Duncan celebrated with a slug of bourbon: "We made the evening news." This, admittedly, was a paltry triumph for the nominee of a major party in September, but it conveys the dire mood that had prevailed in the Dukakis camp and the elation over the shifts that were under way. "This is not brain surgery," said Francis O'Brien, a Sasso recruit to the campaign. "Republicans have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's The Year Of the Handlers | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...Managua, Wright's remark enraged the Nicaraguan opposition, which claimed that Ortega would use the controversy to justify political repression. Said an unrepentant Wright: "The CIA was created to gather intelligence, not to make policy. That is the role of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Open Secrets, Closed Doors | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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