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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four years, all students are required to give up one quarter of their courses to the Core. It is a travesty that so much of the undergraduate experience is limited to the often luke-warm Core offerings...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: In-Core-porate Department Courses | 10/25/1988 | See Source »

...Dukakis, trailing in the polls, resist aggressively challenging Bush in the final debate? The clearest explanation for this passivity came from Kitty Dukakis, who said Friday, "It's hard to be aggressive and warm at the same time. Michael was warmer." Maybe so, but at this rate, it may take until springtime to raise Dukakis to room temperature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Scores A Warm Win | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

CALIFORNIA. The seat occupied by Republican Pete Wilson is hardly warm: not since 1952 has its occupant been re-elected. To extend that tradition, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy has been husbanding his cash for a final blitz to rescue his ailing campaign. Wilson is vulnerable for being wishy-washy; he withheld endorsement of the Reagan-Gorbachev INF treaty even longer than Senate Republican leader Bob Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Senate Battlegrounds | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Nothing escaped Degas's prehensile eye for the texture of life and the myriad gestures that reveal class and work. He made art from things that no painter had fully used before: the way a discarded dress, still warm from the now naked body, keeps some of the shape of its wearer; the unconcern of a dancer scratching her back between practice sessions in The Dance Class, 1873-76; the tension in a relationship between a man and a woman (Sulking, 1869-71) or the undercurrent of violence in an affair (Interior, sometimes known as The Rape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seeing Degas As Never Before | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Harry Truman was presiding over the Senate when Franklin Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Ga. After Eleanor Roosevelt gave him the news, his first question was "Is there anything I can do for you?" He called a Cabinet meeting, asked each member to remain in the job, promised that there would be continuity with F.D.R.'s policies, but stressed that he would be making his own decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Dumb Question, Worse Answer | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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