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By understanding their racial history, Black students can resist yielding "to the temptation to be lost and becom[ing] something [they] are not," he said.

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Black Leader Addresses Students | 2/22/1990 | See Source »

As the East German regime collapses before its anti-Communist opponents, it is yielding up enough evidence of corruption to provide yet another cause of bitter popular resentment against the discredited hierarchy. The allegations of illegal nest feathering have shocked and outraged ordinary citizens, party members and nonmembers alike. Disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in The Golden Ghetto | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

In the first set, Farleigh came out playing well and broke out to an 8-2 lead. FDU's strong middle players were giving the Crimson front line a lot of trouble. Junior Peri Wallace kept the Crimson in the first game with some incredible blocks, sometimes two or three...

Author: By Bob Zayas, | Title: W. Spikers Second at Invt'I | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

It would have been a simple matter to melodramatize or caricature these soldiers' stories. But Atkinson maintains a tone of scrupulous neutrality, and he never loses the Point of his narrative. All along, his greatest character is the military academy itself, sustained by patriotic zeal in the '50s, pocked by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Point Blank | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Bloomingdale's plans to mount its usual theatrical holiday display of luxury goods. But by the time the gold, frankincense and furs are gone, the mecca for wealthy consumers may be yielding its profits to a new owner. Campeau, meanwhile, must find more ways to meet $1 billion in annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Shrinks Back | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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