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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson are the heirs apparent after their "electrifying" speeches to the delegates. Since when does an individual who can write a good speech make a good President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Olympic Fever | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. "Who does Representative Mickey Edwards care more about? You and your vote? Or the auto dealers and their money?" So read another ad in the Ponca City, Okla., paper in Republican Edwards' district. Both ended with the same kicker, "Write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking an Ax to the PACs | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Work? Yes, indeed. Ergonomic furniture design-that is, designing for the human frame-is confirming what some people suspected long ago: the mind seems to work better when the body is firmly and comfortably supported in a reclining position. Thomas Jefferson liked to read and write while taking his ease on a specially adapted chaise longue. Mark Twain and Winston Churchill often worked lying back, their heads supported, facing their books or writing pads at eye level. In such a position, they were able to prevent many a pain in the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: A Chair with All the Angles | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Schell's book was important precisely because it did not accept the terms of debate set by political scientists. Why should we, after all? Political science is merely one way of looking at the world. If Schell wanted to write a book purely to win the faculty of the Kennedy School to his side, then I suppose his failure to adopt their "rules" would be a rhetorical weakness. But it's clear Schell hoped to shift the ground of argument entirely to an ethical and moral plane, from which the "political science rules" which Hirschorn appears to hold sacrosanct appear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Call an Umpire, Quick! | 8/14/1984 | See Source »

Chernenko: That Bok! That is the kind of capitalist reasonableness that will delay the Revolution in that country for an epoch. So what did Buckley then write...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Kremlin to Buckley, Come In | 8/14/1984 | See Source »

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