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Radcliffe trustees should now recognize that it's not necessary--or wise--for Horner's successor to be the nominal president of a Harvard women's college. The massive institute for women's concerns which Radcliffe has become does require a new leader. Yet Radcliffe, the college, no longer exists in fact. It need not exist any longer in name...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Over the Cliffe | 1/27/1988 | See Source »

...teems with robust adventure and romantic misalliance, all drawn in the scrumptious Sunday- funnies style of Milton Caniff. And the three volumes titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (First Publishing; $9.95 each) sport with the whole genre, portraying a quartet of Testudinatas, trained by a wise rat in the refinements of Japanese martial arts, as they swing through various U.S. metropolitan areas righting wrongs and creating mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passing of Pow! and Blam! | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...deny the charges, but offered a novel defense. Had Bloom actually put his customers' money into stocks, suggested Morrison, they might be getting less of it back because of the Oct. 19 market crash. So putting investors' money into art and real estate may have been a wise strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whiz Kid Who Wasn't | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...often look at Israel as the ultimate final solution Europeans found to their inability to deal with anti-Semitism. Colonizing Jews on a strip of desert and cutting them off in a hostile region from the European world they helped create is not my idea of fair or wise. Nonetheless I am attracted by the idea of a strong and powerful majority Jewish state. It gives Jews across the world a sense of identity and courage...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Solution For Israel | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

...calls several times a week. Donnie Brasco (Pistone chose the name at random) never took notes and rarely carried a recorder or radio transmitter because they might be discovered when he greeted fellow Mafiosi with the traditional hug and kiss. He began by frequenting Manhattan clubs and restaurants where wise guys hang out and gradually joined the fringes of the Colombo family. As he started establishing relations with Bonanno Family Members Lefty Ruggiero and Sonny Black, the FBI decided to continue the operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strife And Death in the Family | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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