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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader discovers that he does not hold a book, but an attempt to reclaim a book that has been lost...

Author: By W. CALEB Crain, | Title: A Novel Dictionary | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

Junior defensemen Nate Smith and sophomore Andy Cesarski will attempt to hold their own in power play action this year, a key problem for last year's team. Sophomore Sean Gorman and junior Jim Sourges should use last year's experience to beef up the defensive zone and help out returning sophomore goaltenders Mark Salsbury and Ron High...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Who Will Earn an Invitation to...... the ECAC Garden Party? | 11/11/1988 | See Source »

Government Department Chair Robert D. Keohane, who says he prepared a nine-page memo on the new system for the department's faculty, argues that the change is crucial to any attempt to improve the lot of junior faculty at Harvard...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Faculty Moves Away From Power Politics | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

...plan represents only a tentative proposal, said COHL member and Quincy House Co-Master Rosa D. Shinagel. However, it is a serious attempt to address what many masters have felt is a growing problem of polarization in some houses. That polarization is made worse by students' belief in house stereotypes, masters said...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Plan Outlines Changes To Freshman Lottery | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

...clear winner in the white election. In their Transvaal stronghold, the Conservative challengers captured most of the rural and small-town councils. But in spite of their confident predictions, they were unable to gain significantly in the other provinces. The National Party turned back the opposition's all-out attempt to take over the Pretoria city council, won an absolute majority in Johannesburg for the first time and seized control of Pietermaritzburg, the English-speaking capital of Natal, from a coalition of liberals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Win Some, Lose Some | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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