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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Still, it was a very difficult step to take. Here we were -- communists, antifascists, people who were philosophically opposed to Hitler -- suddenly joining forces with him in this war. Stalin thought he was buying time. The % treaty wouldn't save us from a German attack -- it would only give us a chance to catch our breath. The day he signed the pact with Ribbentrop, Stalin said, "Well, for the time being at least, we've deceived Hitler" -- showing he understood the inevitability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khrushchev's Secret Tapes | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...assault was one of the most boneheaded decisions ever made by a municipal authority -- Keystone Kops reinventing Vietnam as a minifarce in which a neighborhood is destroyed in order to save it. For Cudjoe, the big bang represents creation in the form of a mysterious survivor, a boy known as Simba Muntu (Lion Man) seen walking away from the burning wreckage. The search for Simba provides the novel with an open-ended structure that allows Wideman to display his talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lion Man Among the Ruins | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

Reilly gave his teammates a shot in the arm with a diving save late in the opening period, but the Crimson's subsequent rush upfield yielded only near-misses in front of the UNH net. Junior back Don Daigle, who had just received a yellow card for misconduct, had one header barely deflected by a sprawling John Leader, the Wildcat keeper...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: M. Booters Knock off Wildcats At Ohiri | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

Thanks to a leaping Reilly save, the half endedwith Harvard on top with the lone goal...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: M. Booters Knock off Wildcats At Ohiri | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

...about whether Americans will demand a health care system as equitable as Austria's or West Germany's, or whether we will remain the only industrial nation save South Africa that doesn't guarantee health care as a right of citizenship. Other countries, such as Canada, provide equivalent care to all their citizens at roughly two-thirds of the cost of care in America...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Who Killed Mrs. Jones? | 9/27/1990 | See Source »

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