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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, the Crimson finished 14-11; after losing only two seniors--Brian Graham and Adam Button--this year's squad should fare even better. "While we're going to feel that loss, we've got 11 returning lettermen, five of whom are sophomores who've really come into their own," Sandler explained...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Three-Time Winner | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

Last year, the Crimson finished 14-11; after losing only two seniors--Brian Graham and Adam Button--this year's squad should fare even better. "While we're going to feel that loss, we've got 11 returning lettermen, five of whom are sophomores who've really come into their own," Sandler explained...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Three-Time Winner | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...many modes, she also wrote two hit plays in the 1940s (Over Twenty-One and Years Ago), a novel (Shady Lady, 1982), three volumes of autobiography and, with her husband of 43 years, Director and Novelist Garson Kanin, a host of antic romances, including the Hepburn-Tracy vehicles Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 9, 1985 | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...originally written. That means the Good Book is free of error not only in spiritual and moral teaching but in all historical details. According to this view, miracles, whether the Virgin Birth of Jesus or the parting of the Red Sea, occurred precisely as they are described, and Adam and Eve were real people, not symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jerry Falwell's Crusade | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...evolution has characterized Fundamentalism since its birth. Today's activists do not ask for a ban on the teaching of evolution, as they did at the Scopes trial, but for "balance." That means equal school time for creationism, which follows a particularly literal reading of Genesis. Not only were Adam and Eve the first two humans, creationists contend, but Bible chronology means the earth was created by God a mere 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. (Most scientists, Evangelicals included, estimate that the earth came into being 4.5 billion years ago.) Balancing laws to require inclusion of these ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jerry Falwell's Crusade | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

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