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...dictated one reel after another, he began to agonize about what would happen to his memoirs. "It's all in vain," he would say during our Sunday walks. "Our efforts are useless. Everything's going to be lost. As soon as I die, they'll take it away and destroy it, or bury it so deep that there'll be no trace of it." Deep down I agreed with him. The fact that everything was quiet now didn't mean that it would continue that way forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Khrushchev On Khrushchev | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...this time that we first discussed publishing the memoirs as retaliation if they were seized, or in some other extraordinary situation. Publication would solve once and for all the problem of preserving the memoirs and might also reduce the Central Committee's incentive to seize and destroy them in the Soviet Union. Why should they try to search for them if the book was available? What were they going to do? Buy up all the copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Khrushchev On Khrushchev | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

Wilson should be very wary if she plans to destroy E4A, an organization that has touched the lives of more undergraduates than she realizes. If Radcliffe cannot fund the program for undergraduate public service any longer, she should demand that Harvard pick...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Making Choices at Radcliffe | 6/5/1990 | See Source »

...such turning points in history, all sorts of people come forward in the political, economic and cultural arenas. Some are just a bit strange, while others are downright dangerous. It's important to know which kind you're dealing with. No one will announce that he is out to destroy society or that he is against the interests of the people; he will bare his chest and claim to be marching under the banner of revolution and the people's interests. But people are beginning to see things more clearly. They know who their real friends are. They're giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev Interview: I Am an Optimist | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...otherwise normal men and women do such things? Why do they let their sexual desires destroy their families, their jobs, even their health? Is it possible that they are powerless to control their urges? Are they addicted to sex, just as a junkie is dependent on his next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Do People Get Hooked on Sex? | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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