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...pastimes. There isn't much time these days, but when there is an hour here or there, I turn to reading. My first love is Vietnamese literature, but I also enjoy Victor Hugo, Balzac, Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Linh | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...members of the administration include: Joyce Curll, assistant dean for admissions and financial aid; Sarah Wald, dean of students; Victor A Koivumaki, executive director of the Harvard Law School Association; and Bussey Professor of Law Frank E.A. Sander, associate dean...

Author: By Emily M. Bernstein, | Title: Law School Deans Take Office | 9/17/1987 | See Source »

...were promiscuous with her word processor. The idea that nice authors don't write around (18 novels, dozens of short stories, poems, criticism and a book on boxing) is consistent with a period that is excessively self-conscious about its artistic urges. It is unlikely that Victor Hugo, Balzac or Trollope was ever accused of scriptomania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Demon's Grip YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS | 8/31/1987 | See Source »

Enrile seems to have changed his mind. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the independent Commission on Elections to proclaim him the winner of the contested 24th Senate seat. Some commission members had been criticized for delaying a final decision to keep out Enrile. Declared the victor: "The decision is a triumph of justice and fairness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Take Your Seat, Please | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Bombs exploded at the offices of the ruling Radical Civic Union Party in four Argentine cities one morning last week. No one was injured, and no one claimed responsibility, but Vice President Victor Martinez blasted both "the extreme left and the ultra-right." Both sides, he said, had trampled on the "state of rights" that Argentines have enjoyed since 1983, when Raul Alfonsin became the country's first elected President after almost eight years of military dictatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina Undue Obedience | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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