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"I was very deeply disappointed in ourgraduation ceremonies and I wrote the letter,"Failoni said. "This entire issue has been so blownout of proportion....I've learned that the morethings get tossed around the more dynamic theyget."

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Pre-Frosh Speech Comes Under Fire | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

THE SPREADING LABOR UNREST IS also testimony to the difficulty of converting a welfare state, with cradle-to-grave protections for workers, to what Beijing's leaders call a "socialist market economy." China may boast one of the world's fastest-growing gross domestic products -- GDP shot up 13.4% in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor Pains | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Anyone who has given hostages to fortune by marrying and having children knows ! that the normal 3 a.m. horrors take on an astonishing new awfulness under those conditions. Nightmares of the crippling disease, the car crash, the sociopath bedevil the spouse and parent. And they do so, for some reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Mom's Horror | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Yet for every gay success, there is a countervailing setback. For every invitation, there is a rebuff. If the view over the past quarter-century suggests that gay progress is inevitable, the picture today suggests that gays may instead be, as their opponents argue, a unique case rather than just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride and Prejudice | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

A common feature of the three newly discovered animals is their primitive characteristics, suggesting that they have remained essentially unchanged for aeons. The slow-running deer has simple horns that remind Arctander of a Viking helmet. The giant muntjac has large canine teeth that deerlike animals used in fights long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ancient Creatures in a Lost World | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

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