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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 7, 33 members of the staff of the Harvard Crimson declared their preferences for president of the United States, and every one chose a Democrat. One hears a great deal these days about biases of various sorts, including biases in the press, so it is natural to ask how biased an outlook this vote betrays...
...revealed in the mid-17th | century, a period marking the clan's decline. Smelling a credit crunch, dealers alighted in Mantua to bargain for works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Veronese and Van Dyke. Simon estimates that 700 paintings by these and other masters were sold, and eventually found various ways into the world's museums. One immovable prize was the Gonzaga pleasure palace at Te, the walls and ceilings of which bloomed with mural paintings that were forerunners of the mannerist style...
...extent of the carnage was only revealed at week's end, when an anchorman of the national television newscast Vremya read a four-paragraph TASS dispatch in a somber voice. "Criminal elements committed violent actions and engaged in robberies," he reported. "They killed 31 people, among them members of various nationalities, old men and women...
...Ghaida, whose parents are Palestinian, said she had hoped the recent uprisings would shed light on thePalestinian dilemma as "a real problem that has tobe confronted now," rather than a historicaldispute. She added that she had hoped the riotswould inspire various campus groups to discuss theissues, but instead, she said they will now "onlybe sending out fact sheets at each other...
...needed $800 million highway improvement projects planned for the next five years have been indefinitely delayed because of a bizarre dispute among the city, the state of Texas and the local billboard industry. The state's highway commission, which had planned the construction, needs to move 123 billboards along various routes to new locations. But that would violate a tough antibillboard law enacted by the city council in 1980. The ordinance prohibits the erection of any new billboards in Houston, which already has a staggering 7,331 of the signs, or approximately four times as many as Atlanta...