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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ackermann says she also tried to avoid the chches of political memoirs. "I wanted to write the kind of book that I would like to read," she says. "I used a lot of dialogue and worked up to a climax because you have to be kind to your reader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outside Looking In | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Some legal authorities have already called for prosecution according to the letter of the law. If North, Bush and Wright are guilty, these wimps argue they should be sent to jail. Never mind that "jail" would probably be some cushy condominium near a golf course where the "criminals" could write their memoirs and make millions. Never mind that J. Danforth Quayle would wind up president of the United States...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Tooth for a Tooth | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

...favorite ways to procrastinate in high school was to flip through Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. I would write down my favorite quotes and feel good about all the time I was saving by only reading the best lines of the best works of literature...

Author: By Dan Mufson, | Title: Identifying Recent Notable Quotables | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...contributions to civilization, go. After 14 years as a corporate secretary, this dynamic mother of one returned to school and developed the courses in which she teaches that not all great things came from European minds. And keep an eye out for books by Luke Pontifell. He does not write them but prints them, beautifully, by hand. Last year his Thornwillow Press published Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s J.F.K. Remembered, and in July he will bring out a book by Walter Cronkite on the first human landing on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Apr 17 1989 | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

SWAPO is still expected to win a majority in next November's elections. But to gain complete control over the assembly that will write Namibia's new constitution, a party must capture two-thirds of the total vote, and there is considerable doubt that SWAPO can do that. It will face at least six opponents, the strongest being the moderate Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a mixed-race consortium of ethnically based parties with considerable appeal to Namibia's 80,000 whites. Says Alliance Chairman Dirk Mudge, a white former Finance Minister: "It won't be a SWAPO landslide, believe me." Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Namibia Botching the Peace | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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