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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...great Roy Orbison died last year. With his prep school background and solid looks, Bok could add to the group's mainstream appeal. Likewise, even a short stint with Bob Dylan and Tom Petty would go a long way toward rebuilding Bok's activist image. The downside: At this point, Bok's only musical talent consists in being able to sing "10 Thousand Men of Harvard" backwards. Odds...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Derek and Me | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Around the 7-K mark, Jones started closing and finally caught Gadowski at the 7200-meter point. But, according to Jones, instead of running past the tiring Gadowski, she kept pace with the leader and let the rest of the pack back into the race...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Rainey Runs Her Personal Best; Still Finishes Third at NCAAs | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Technicalities, however, were not the real point; political will was. On the American side, there was some suspicion that Gorbachev would be unable to make any but the tiniest additional concessions. Reason: he was under fire from military leaders who (with some justification) feared that the treaty was shaping up in a fashion skewed in favor of the U.S. On the Soviet side, there was some concern that the U.S. would try to push an already embattled Gorbachev to the wall. One way to do so: insisting on a ban on mobile missiles with multiple warheads, which the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treaties: Oh, One More Thing . . . | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...great plague in Europe, where 1 out of 3 people died. I personally think things are now converging for the first time in history, fulfilling the prophecies that he himself made about his coming. I had a German scientist say to me the other day that from a scientific point of view, man is almost at the end now. He was not talking about religion. I would say that people seem to sense that we cannot go on forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Billy Graham: Preachers, Politics And Temptation | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...have any assets, but I would say that they have a strong point because I am faced with the thought that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association should shut down. I do not have the authority to shut it down. I have let that authority go into a board of directors for some years now. And I do not think they would hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with Billy Graham: Preachers, Politics And Temptation | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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