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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, Coffin wrote in his decision for the three-judge panel, Tribe claimed he spent 18 hours writing an 18-line footnote about three ancient English statues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appellate Court Halves Professor's Legal Fees | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...requirements for a degree, from ancient times on, has been... the capacity to receive what has been conferred," said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who was apparently the lone dissenter on the Faculty Council...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges and Charles T. Kurzman, S | Title: Faculty Votes to Award Degrees Posthumously | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...Crimson (5-3 overall) is now 3-1 in Ancient Eight play and in sole possession of first place in the league for the first time in history...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Icewomen Sit Atop Ivies, Top Visiting Cornell, 5-1 | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...enough. Last week the judge took drastic steps to force the legislature to clean up polluted, malodorous Boston Harbor or risk ending a $500 million-a-year building boom in the Boston metropolitan area. Garrity declared a moratorium on almost all new developments that would be connected to the ancient sewer system that serves Boston and 42 other cities and towns. The order covers all building applications dating back to June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston Horror | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...history of illustration is at least as ancient as the clay pictographs of Sumer (3000 B.C.) and as new as the freshest video graphics. To trace the highlights of that epic would take unflagging research and a tireless, discerning eye. These are, happily, the attributes of Michel Melot, a Paris-based librarian who seems to have studied every scroll, page and poster since the origin of writing and painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Library to Celebrate the Holidays | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

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