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...Western Europe similarly continues to become more independent of the U.S. And Bush's skimpy aid offerings in Warsaw and Budapest showed that as the waning of the cold war hastens these shifts in Europe's tectonic plates, the U.S. is likely to find it both necessary and wise to let its allies take the lead in managing Western responses to changes in Eastern Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Patrons to Partners | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Crystal is great as an older more pathetic kind of wise guy than his earlier self. He is well cast and funny but it is Ryan--with her big blue eyes reminiscent of Goldie Hawn--who is really outstanding...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Harry and Sally: Consummating a Friendship | 7/14/1989 | See Source »

Before I left for college my first year, my parents bade me heed the advice of Polonius, one of the wise fools in Shakespeare's Hamlet. As his son, Laertes, prepares to leave for France, Polonius leaves him with two pieces of wisdom, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," and "to thine own self be true...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: A Texan Avoiding Becoming a `Blue-Bellied Yankee' | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

...French Open was a triumph. To do it at 17 was a wonder. But Michael Chang seemed to grasp more than just the moment when he beat Ivan Lendl and Stefan Edberg in Paris to join the company of world-champion tennis players. Chang was wise enough to understand, "These two weeks are going to stay with me the rest of my life," but excited enough to imagine, "Maybe someday I'll be able to achieve something greater." More than a few days later, the sport is still tingling with his possibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youth Will Be Served | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...were Harvard University that wasproviding the final clubs, then Radcliffe has avery specific thing that it could do legally andother-wise," Horner says. "If they are not part ofHarvard, then Radcliffe has a different kind oflens with which to look [at the issue...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Complications Delay Final Clubs Complaint | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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