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To understand American defense, think of an extremely wealthy man who has gone to a gambling casino for a long binge, gotten hopelessly drunk, wasted a great deal of his money and awakened with a severe hangover to find that he has married a woman who is a complete stranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing The Pentagon to Heel | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

Corbero's work looks fairly orthodox, nevertheless, beside that of the young Scotsman David Mach, 32, showing at the Barbara Toll gallery (also through June 11). There is one object on view. It fills most of the gallery. It is called A Million Miles Away and is made from some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods, Chess and 28,000 Magazines | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Often Harvard's minority students are unaware of the condition of most American minorities because they come from middle class backgrounds, not ghettos or working-class families, Perez says. For this reason, many minorities become involved in Phillips Brooks House, which has programs for inner-city youth and housing projects...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Easing the Culture Shock for Chicanos at Harvard | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

The mainstream argument for legalization is pragmatic: the war against drugs has failed, and the cost to society of keeping them illegal is greater than the cost of learning to live with them. Out at the fringes of respectability is the libertarian argument: people have the right to control their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Glass Houses and Getting Stoned | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

A clothing distributor in the Bronx had found it cheaper to turn rejects over to a trucker deadheading back to North Carolina than to dump the stuff in New York. Enterprising Wheeler-Dealer Lee ("Red") Wright spread the bales over a one-acre field. Last week Wright was collecting a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Carolina: For $5, All You Can Wear | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

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