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Harris and Greeley argue that the nation may be experiencing a negative backlash to the sexual revolution. They note, for example, that 51% of women under 35 regretted having had a premarital sexual encounter (though only 16% of men felt that way). Meanwhile, according to another poll, the percentage of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: America's New Fad: Fidelity | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

Son of a highly cultured schoolteacher, Lenin was expelled from school for taking part in a student protest. While idling at home, he discovered the works of Karl Marx, which prophesied the inevitable collapse of capitalism and its empires. He did finally get a law degree, but his fascination with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Headed for The Dustheap | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

Our words protesting a violence against our community might alienate some none-too-bright readers. But any quasi-controversial result we may encounter is immeasurably better than the alternative you seem to naively suggest: our deaths at the hand of the editorial sword. Jarrett T. Barrios '90 Co-chair, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorial Was Violent | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

In a nation that could use a few more physicists and engineers, it seems sad to drive so many students away from fields in which they have expressed an interest. While a tutorial program may not solve all the problems first-year students encounter in introductory physics, it would go...

Author: By Kevin D. Katari, | Title: Why Physics is a Repulsive Force | 2/2/1990 | See Source »

For all its vibrancy, The Quincunx occasionally seems to be too much of a good thing. In order to wring maximum suspense out of each encounter, Palliser allows his narrator some shameless stalling. "Not so fast," one character remarks, when asked a leading question, and the reader is inclined to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mask That Never Slips THE QUINCUNX by Charles Palliser | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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