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Begin with a birth: a baby-faced soldier, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), is delivered from the womb of a transport plane into the harsh light of Viet Nam. He will find death soon enough: four patrols in the film, four wrenching revelations. On Chris' first night patrol he watches, paralyzed with fear, as the enemy approaches and another new boy dies. On a second patrol the platoon enters a village that might be My Lai; anger goads Chris to spit bullets at the feet of a petrified Vietnamese, and before the day is over the group's leader, Sergeant Barnes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...custody; they hardly know each other. Their daughter, "Baby M.," is at the center of a fierce and highly publicized dispute over surrogate birth that began when Whitehead decided to keep the child she had agreed to carry for Stern. The case has touched off widespread debate: Is the womb a rentable space? Should the use of a surrogate mother be a legitimate option for couples who cannot have children? Or is it an odious trade in babies? While the Baby M. case is not the first surrogate-parent dispute to end up in the courts, Judge Sorkow's eventual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Womb a Rentable Space? | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...president, James Bryant Conant '13, the three graduate schools merged into the present-day GSD. Although the move was intended to unite the three schools, it was most notable not as a bureaucratic change, but for drawing two of the world's best known designers into Harvard's architectural womb...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: America's Tower of Architectural Power | 9/18/1986 | See Source »

...president, James Bryant Conant '13, the three graduate schools merged into the present-day GSD. Although the move was intended to unite the three schools, it was most notable not as a bureaucratic change, but for drawing two of the world's best known designers into Harvard's architectural womb...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: America's Tower of Architectural Power | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

...eight-hour dayat the office. Life suddenly becomes a long strechof mundanity interspersed with a few intenseexperiences that are far between. I envy those whoare leaving here excited to the depths of theirsoul about a job or a trip or a fellowship, forthey will be eased out of the womb...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Remembering Their Harvard Experience | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

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