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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Whitmore as a coroner and Martin Gabel as a museum arms curator who eventually tracks down the killer's weapon bring further touches of self-deprecating humor to their roles, yet once again Hutton fails to weave these nuances into the main body of the plot. One is left instead with just isolated stars, isolated scenes and an isolated plot...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Graceless | 10/31/1980 | See Source »

Even if this evidence had not emerged, the mere event of a trial would certainly have exposed and mobilized deep divisions within the Chilean military. Unlike, for instance, Franco's Nationalist Forces, the Chilean military did not undergo the intensely unifying experience of fighting and winning a civil war. Instead, it conducted a campaign of indiscriminate terror against an unarmed civilian population. Far from promoting a spartan sense of unity, this experience deeply conflicted with the espirit de corps of an institution which had never performed praitorian functions...

Author: By Richard M. Valelly, | Title: CHILEAN JUSTICE | 10/30/1980 | See Source »

...perform as well as aptitude test scores would indicate, and that Jewish students perform better. But it makes judgments about student performance and "success" in a vacuum, focusing mostly on standardized test scores and examining them with no attention to social, economic and historical factors, breaking students down instead into groups like "women," "Blacks," and "Jews." It irresponsibly reduces people to statistics; that anyone could consider it valid is cause for fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Klitgaard's Folly | 10/30/1980 | See Source »

...memorandum argues that the University has helped create elderly and low income housing in the city, "preserved" apartments it purchased as rental housing instead of converting them to condominiums, and created large amounts of housing for students and faculty...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Lawyers Offer New Arguments In 7 Sumner Road Conversion | 10/30/1980 | See Source »

...Instead of that peace coventry they could've used Michael's death, for nothing--zero...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Whither the Covenant? | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

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