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...some misfits sinking into a vortex of Central American revolution. The background stakes in Children of Light are, by comparison, inconsequential. A movie budgeted at a mere $7 million will go down the tubes if Lu Anne somehow manages to play her affliction out to its final scene and destroy herself. Whether Walker lives or dies hardly makes a dime's worth of difference to anyone, including him. Stone's saga of these two heedless souls is both enthralling and a little disappointing. The conclusion hardly matters. All the fun, most of it wonderfully nasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Accident Waiting to Happen Children of Light by Robert Stone | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Julia H. Flanders '87 says she frequently cooks couscous in her room in Quincy House, and claims to know its properties well. "Couscous is pretty hard to destroy, but its not a good food to mass produce, because it's easy to overcook," she says...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Coucous Innovations | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

However, Immerman said that he has no immediateplans to destroy the shanties, and MIT PoliceChief James Oliveri said he would not take anyspecial security measures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protesters Build Shantytown at MIT Calling on Governing Body to Divest | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

...could wipe out the U.S. strategic-command system and prevent the President from ordering a retaliatory attack. Said one senior U.S. military officer: "This is the single most dangerous document I have ever seen." The Pentagon dispatched an official with a top security clearance to round up copies and destroy them in a high-security incinerator in the offices of the Joint Chiefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Dangerous Document | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...holding at Fao, Iran appeared for a time to have maintained its advantage in the prolonged war of attrition. Iran's population of 45 million is nearly three times larger than Iraq's, and its devoutly Islamic clerical leadership seems as willing as ever to absorb massive losses to destroy Saddam. If the stalemate that Iraq has achieved so far by its superiority in firepower begins to fade, both military and civilian morale are likely to sag. Observers believe that desertions within the Iraqi ranks are already on the rise. Saddam is reported to have recently decorated a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Shift in a Bloody Stalemate | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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