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1) Was Secord, as he claimed, a disinterested patriot acting at Government request to attain what he thought were worthy foreign policy goals? Or was he out for profit? Secord repeatedly insisted that from mid-1985 on he "forswore" any profit. Liman pressed Secord about closed-door testimony taken previously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Ran the Show | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Try some Bartlett's and James. If only PBS and C-SPAN deem your performance worthy of coverage, it is cooler not to whine about it. Instead, haul out the quote books and show off your erudition for this upscale audience. Here, for example, is a useful phrase from The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Move Over, Sam Ervin | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

In a recent talk at the Law School, Assistant Professor of Law Randall Kennedy praised the disruption of political speakers whose views are "beyond the pale" and asserted that some political speech "shouldn't be tolerated." There can be little doubt that most thoughtful Americans are strongly opposed to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Kennedy | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

! Fox is Brantley Foster, come to conquer the business world. His uncle (Richard Jordan) runs a vulnerable conglomerate; his inamorata (Helen Slater) is the boss's minor squeeze; the older woman who beds Brantley is the boss's wife (Margaret Whitton). And now that we have the farce machinery purring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Coping with the Cute Factor | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

If the senior Americanists mean to suggest that for the last seven years there has not been a single historian worthy tenure, such a defense is unacceptable. In those seven years two full classes of American history concentrators have graduated, none of whom who could receive help on a senior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Historical Perspective | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

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