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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Biden recognizes that these incidents feed the perception that he is a gabby lightweight. He is no "hothead," he insists; certain occasions warrant anger, but his temper is "measured." One friend suggests that the hip shooting comes from a "complicated mix of the emotional and the calculating." A Biden aide observes that "somewhere in him is the Irish Catholic kid struggling to show 'them' that he's as good as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Joe Biden: Orator for the Next Generation | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

Acknowledging the genocide of his nation while denying the guilt of those closest to him is not righteousness enough to warrant the Harvard honor. Harvard's system of selecting and rejecting honoraries is so fatally flawed that there does not even appear to be a constructive way to change it. Every member of the Harvard community is ultimately dishonored by this most recent insensitivity. The system should be changed for the future. For the present Richard von Weizsacker must be shown dramatically and unforgettably that those who selected him for the honor do not speak for the Harvard faculty, student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Undeserved Honor | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...manhunt, code-named WANT, for Warrant Apprehension Narcotics Teams, was conducted by squads of Marshals Service investigators operating out of eight cities and three foreign countries. Howard Safir, head of operations for the Marshals Service, conceived WANT as a way of getting at traffickers who have plenty of cash and ready-made support networks to hide them. In the past, says Safir, "if a drug trafficker was out more than 48 hours, he was basically home free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking A Byte Out of Crime | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

Some scientists, particularly those opposed to the SSC for other reasons, have expressed concern that the rapid developments in superconductivity could warrant a redesign of the accelerator. "It might be possible to shrink the radius down to ten miles," says Cornell Physicist James Krumhansl, president- elect of the American Physical Society. "What I say is, let's put the matter into one more year of research and development and review it next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ssc: Lord of the Rings | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

These are not trivial matters and those involved are predictably reluctant to talk. If, as Bok has stated, investigations are warranted, then the investigations warrant the attention of the University's highest echelons. If they are to get anywhere, the investigations must take place under official auspices. And they should begin now, before the facts of the cases become more remote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigate the Charges | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

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