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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...committee has been formed to draft the city's congressional delegate, Walter Fauntroy, as a candidate for mayor. Barry, who is undergoing treatment for alcoholism in Florida, blasted the indictment as a "political lynching." Some of his advisers suggest that his motive for staying in office is to offer to resign as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a lighter sentence. If convicted, he could be fined $1.25 million and sentenced to 20 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: End of the Line For Barry? | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

What advice does this girl need? Go for it? Give it up? Wait until you are 30 and see if you still like him? Offer to buy him cupcakes in the cafeteria...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Please Don't Ask Beth | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

...Hall. The UC shouldn't cut any one-sided deals with the Business School; for once, it should adequately represent undergraduate concerns. I implore our representatives to stand up to the Business School and demand fair play. We should not have to pay for a service which we currently offer free of charge to graduate students. Eli Karsh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The UC and Shad Hall | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

...Crimson's coverage of the Law School's offer of a visiting professorship to Gerald Torres was inadequate. Some information about his background and area of scholarship would have been of interest and quite appropriate in an article ostensibly about Torres. Instead, the article merely disclosed the facts that Torres is a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and that he is Hispanic. Torres's ethnicity may be newsworthy in light of the history of Hispanic legal scholarship at Harvard Law School. But to devote an article to his appointment without mentioning his scholarly work inevitably suggests that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Professor | 2/22/1990 | See Source »

...time to offer our hand to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe," said Bush. But an empty hand is not enough. It is absurd to say, as some do, that money is not what Eastern Europe needs. Yes, capitalist expertise and rapid integration into the Western economic system are equally important. But this is no excuse for refusing simple cash. Nor is the fact that so much Western money was squandered in the 1970s. That was a different world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: We Gave at the Office | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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