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...held on schedule, but less than 10% of the country's estimated 2.9 million eligible voters cast ballots. Despite heady days of promise last February after President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fled to exile in France, Haitians exercised their democratic franchise last week with a whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti:A Whisper for Democracy | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...Believers have begun to whisper some strange words: Ivy League title...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: The Tale of the Cynics and the Believers | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

...year-old President is thinking about his place in history, more so than he did when he took office. Though Reagan and his wife deny they have ever discussed how arms control could affect his legacy, Nancy may indeed have fulfilled her promise to Andrei Gromyko to whisper "peace" in her husband's ear each night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Reagan Gone Soft? | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...faculty as the "building block on which everything else rests." Harvard's president has a time trying to stand on that block. In one of his first meetings with the faculty, Bok began to explain his view of the role of the university. From the back row came a whisper: "We are the university." Observers such as John Rosenblum, dean of the University of Virginia's business school, marvel at "how little power Derek Bok has" to deal with these baronial scholars. Bok acknowledges the situation: "Nothing works around here," he says, "without faculty cooperation." Cooperation is no easy thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happy Birthday, Fair Harvard! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Come to Laurenland, the images whisper, where fantasy and finery go together like hand in well-stitched glove. Watch polo matches in Palm Beach, trim in a crested blazer and trousers of crisp linen. Sip cognac by the fireplace of a Sun Valley, chalet, snug under a brightly colored Navajo blanket and clad in a Nordic apres-ski sweater and wool twill slacks. Go on safari in Kenya wearing a bush jacket and khaki shorts that would do justice to Robert Redford in Out of Africa. Sip tea at London's Connaught Hotel, draped to perfection in a chalk-stripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

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