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A college football overtime is much like an extra-inning baseball game. The offensive team has the ball 25 yards from the endzone, and has the opportunity to score any way they can. After a score or a turnover, the other offense comes in and must match or beat the...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: College Overtime: Why Kiss Your Sister? | 9/30/1987 | See Source »

BEFORE HARVARD enters the 21st century, one-third of its current faculty is expected to retire. This turnover presents the University with the perfect opportunity to diversify its faculty. But if there is to be a more diverse faculty, there must be a more diverse pool of scholars from which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSAS's First Steps | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

It was a week-long stampede of amazing force. The time required for the Dow Jones industrial average to get from one 100-point mark to the next highest used to be measured in years, then months, then, in early 1987, two or three weeks. But after vaulting past 2600...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bang-Bang Birthday | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

Behind the accumulated chaos was a helter-skelter organization run by an insecure, often dictatorial man who, in the words of a former PTL executive, "didn't know how to balance his own checkbook." Executive turnover was constant. PTL repeatedly switched legal advisers and accounting firms. Under Bakker, PTL at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Enterprising Evangelism | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

Italians, with memories of Mussolini still fresh in their minds, went even further than the Germans in reining in the executive branch. While this has guarded against a new outbreak of tyranny, the inability of any one of Italy's parties to win a majority in parliament has led to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WORLD: A Gift to All Nations | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

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