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...find out that Harvard is maybe possibly (I know! Nothing's been proved yet! Please don't sue me!) no better than Ivan Boesky, except that President Bok has a nice, all-American name like "Derek...

Author: By Beckie Sherman, | Title: Son of Student Aid Services | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...Detroit Pistons may have won the N.B.A. championship last week, thanks to their Motor City moxie, but they couldn't have done it without a contribution from South Korea. How's that? Despite the all-American Spalding name on N.B.A. basketballs, they are made in South Korea. In fact, many products with red- white-and-blue names are manufactured abroad, including Rawlings baseballs (made in Haiti), Bell telephones (Singapore and Taiwan) and the Pontiac LeMans (South Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTS: Hey, This Apple Pie's an Import! | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

OLLIE HOPNOODLE'S HAVEN OF BLISS (PBS, May 31, 9 p.m. on most stations). An all-American family takes an ill-starred vacation in this Jean Shepherd- scripted comedy on American Playhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 5, 1989 | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

This spring, we won three major tournaments posted a record of 14-1, our best since winning the National Championship in 1984. Several of our players earned all-East honors and will soon try out for the all-American team. Harvard rugby is undoubtedly a serious sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...pillars of American civic righteousness are here: the YWCA choir, the Boy Scouts, the 4-H club, the church-sponsored floats, even the pom-pom girls strutting their stuff to the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again. It could, really, be any All-American small town putting on an Independence Day parade on any village green. Except that this truly is, in the strict anthropological sense, a village, and the green here is really, really green. And the girls are dressed in grass skirts, and so too are many of the boys, with sashes of flowers across their oiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pago Pago, American Samoa Whose Nation Is This Anyway? | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

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