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The guerrillas sound determined to fight unless a newly elected government proves unexpectedly willing to reopen negotiations. Warns Cirilo: "We have a genuine desire for peace. But that should not be mistaken for weakness." Schafik Jorge Handal, head of the Salvadoran Communist Party and one of the F.M.L.N.'s top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Revolt Under the Coconut Palms | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Sustained, coherent narrative is not, shall we say, Janowitz's great strength, and neither is dramatic characterization. Eleanor (the normally perky, cuddly Bernadette Peters in sadly deflated condition) is a designer of funky hats who suffers from a possibly justifiable weakness of the ego. She lives with a graffiti artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Funky Funk | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

This is the kind of timidity that has caused the council to become little more than a resume-filler for its members. A faulty election procedure played out year after year is the cause of much of the council's weakness.

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Vote Yes for a Strong Council | 3/14/1989 | See Source »

The discrepancy between these schools of thought is no accident. As Harvard's Christensen explains, "Many schools are devoted to the study of the practice of management--we are devoted to the practice of management." Nevertheless, this fundamental difference in training is still often regarded as a weakness in other...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: A Hands-On Classroom at the B-School | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

"I did a big survey of Harvard cases and was quite disappointed," said Kuhn. "Harvard's cases," he says, "too much revolve around personal ethics, rather than systemic ethics"--they study the transgressions made by individuals rather than how these are caused by the faults of the business world itself...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: A Hands-On Classroom at the B-School | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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