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...Anyone who wants to do sports and economics should not be penalized," said Krishna. True, but neither should Harvard cater to the athlete's every whim. That classes will occassionally run into practice time should be a given at an institution that intends to be a university, not a training camp. The fault lies not with the athletes, but with a department that fawns over them...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Economic Injustice | 10/2/1986 | See Source »

...exile last spring to protest her arrest. She indirectly conceded that this raised doubts about her ability to change the Zia regime's course and that the government could arrest her anytime it wished. "How long I'm free I don't know," she said. "That depends on their whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Free - for the Moment | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...year stretch so that a new generation could face its own problems unencumbered. That pay- as-you-go principle might also be an effective restraint on the "dog of war," reasoned Jefferson, who had seen the European potentates suffocate their subjects with debt from wars of pride and whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Mind with Few Limits | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...hard: the circus as well as political campaigns (because she was dressed in jeans and a parka, George Bush mistook her for a network electrician). Ellerbee talks tough about the shortcomings of her profession and salty about sex and sexism at the office. The saline reporter with a whim of iron is not a pose. This month she spurned NBC's best offer to head for greener paychecks on other channels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...Burroughs entitled You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With. This album is unique in that it divides four sides of vinyl evenly among the three artists by including three parallel tracks, one apiece, on the fourth side, leaving the choice of artist to the whim of the phonograph stylus...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Quite a Performance | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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