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"I haven't had to yell in a while," Horner said two years ago about her role as president. After pressing Harvard to equalize the role of women on campus in the 1970s, Horner's activism petered out. Radcliffe failed to take the lead when the University reviewed its harassment...

Author: By Matina S. Horner, | Title: Heading Off | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

A final point of strategy among principals is to fight the curse of student anonymity in big urban schools. Washington Prep's McKenna is one who believes in person-to-person contact, not only from faculty to student but among the pupils. "The academically advanced should, and at my school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Tough | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

That was big news. Big news elsewhere, though, often doesn't seem quite so pressing in Ellsworth. The October stock-market crash got one sentence last fall; the blueberry industry, a mainstay of the region, got a five-part series. But nothing is read more closely than the court page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Town and Its Paper | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Roh promised to hold a national vote of confidence after next September's Olympic Games in Seoul and to step down if he lost the plebiscite. Pressing his theme of national reconciliation, he prayed with Buddhist monks and met with Presbyterian leaders. Roh delayed a meeting with Stephen Cardinal Kim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Guilt Trips | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

When a series of nude billboards began appearing last week, Parisians reacted with confusion rather than shock. Was the naked runner with a rose in his hand advertising a floral delivery service? Were the children, all in the buff, promoting a softer bathroom tissue? And the pregnant woman pressing a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Naked Came The Socialist | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

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