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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fordham Headmaster Cornelius McCarthy is baffled as to how good kids could go so far wrong so fast. "James Patrick Cooney was a happy-go-lucky kid, confident of himself." Confident, perhaps cocksure. Away from the protection of adults, Cooney and his friends indulged the illusion they were exempt from death and other mortal coils, as the young tend to do, this time to a deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Friends in a Car | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...deported to Britain rather than Ireland. Doherty, who entered the U.S. illegally in 1982 after escaping from a Belfast jail, faces life behind bars if he is sent to Britain. Meese's action was the Reagan Administration's latest effort to sidestep federal court decisions holding that Doherty is exempt from extradition to Britain on the grounds that his actions were politically motivated. Doherty's lawyers petitioned for a review of Meese's decision. Meanwhile, the defendant will remain in a New York City jail, where he has been held without bail for most of the past five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland Marathon of Death | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...main reason for the impasse in START was also specific -- excruciatingly so: how to restrict sea-launched cruise missiles. Since SLCMs use highly sophisticated guidance systems, the U.S. has an advantage. Therefore the Soviets are trying to restrict them, while the U.S. wants virtually to exempt them from START...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summit's Good Soldiers | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Although it is a non-profit institution and therefore exempt from most taxes. Harvard is still the city's largest taxpayer. The University pays millions of dollars in property taxes on its non-academic land holdings--including property managed by Harvard Real Estate--and also makes a voluntary tax payment of approximately $950,000 on its academic land and buildings...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Employer, Landlord and Taxpayer | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...lack greed. And, in our economic system, there is nothing wrong with greed. A variety of diagrams and mathematical formulas is available to show how capitalism usually channels individual greed into productive activity that's good for society as a whole. But, if anything, the Helmsleys ought to be exempt from the forces that stimulate greed in the rest of us. They're already worth an estimated $1.4 billion. They're 67 and 79 years old, with no children. They give to charity generously, but not obsessively. Although the Helmsleys try harder than most other superrich, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Superrich Are Different | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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