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Though Harvard's offense struggled, the games were not without high points. John Marshall gave the Crimson a goal at the buzzer in the team's game against Iona. Steve Kan, who has what Dodge calls "a rifle of an arm," also blasted one by the goalie...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Aquadudes Seventh At Eastern Tourney | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Bonn and Moscow have been at arm's length for five years, ever since West Germany agreed to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles aimed at the U.S.S.R. The gulf widened in 1986 when Kohl compared Gorbachev with the infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Now the missiles are going, and Gorbachev has evidently swallowed his personal grievance in hopes of cashing in on Europe's newfound enthusiasm for his grand plan for reform. And cash in he did. The 70 top-ranking West German businessmen who accompanied Kohl offered the Soviets a $1.7 billion line of credit and some 30 trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West A Toast - or Roast - for Reform? | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...last resort. A President's task is to reconcile, to include. Hence, Richard Nixon, a bareknuckle anti-Commie on the way up, spent as much time at his first summit trying to persuade Leonid Brezhnev that they would both be winners with an arms-limitation agreement as he did espousing the U.S. position. John Kennedy early in his presidency grew heated and called Big Steel men "s.o.b.'s," then quickly cooled down and made amends. "If they don't do well, I don't do well," he explained. Even Lyndon Johnson, renowned for his arm twisting, had a more prosaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Will These Mud Crawlers Learn to Fly? | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Chang testified that, after practicing martial arts in a children's play-ground, he fell asleep on a "wooden board supported by two springs." He said Blair woke him and told him to move--and although he obeyed, the officer harassed him, twisting his arm behind his back and slamming him against a police...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Police Board Dismisses Charges of Harassment | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Featuring songs like "We Arm the World," "Thank God I'm a Contra Boy," and an ode to Eastern Airlines, "Help me make it through the flight," Capitol Steps plans to perform for 90 minutes at Sanders, a troupe spokesperson said...

Author: By Peter S. Kozinets, | Title: Satire Troupe to Perform | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

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