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...were trying to make do with what we had," said freshman starter Alec Berg...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Men Spikers Fall Hard | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...rampage of young toughs is the latest manifestation of racial violence that has resurfaced during the Reagan years. In 1984 members of the right-wing terrorist group the Order assassinated Denver Talk Show Host Alan Berg, then went on a yearlong spree of robbery and destruction. In 1982 in Cleveland, a member of the racist group Aryan Nations murdered two blacks and a white man he mistakenly thought was Jewish. Last week the National Council of Churches warned that such violence had reached "epidemic proportions" in the U.S. The brutal tally between 1980 and 1986: 121 murders, 302 assaults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Chilling Wave of Racism | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson could not start up again in the third game and again fell behind early. Inspired play from Neilson and Freshman Alec Berg could not generate enough momentum as the Navy duo of Hite and Watson successfully squashed Harvard's comeback attempts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Slams Spikers | 1/20/1988 | See Source »

Such are some of the bulletins to be gleaned from the second edition of the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language. "A storehouse and mirror of the language," is how Editor in Chief Stuart Berg Flexner describes the new dictionary, and with its 315,000 entries, the twelve-pound volume amply lives up to the billing. Along with the publication, between 1972 and 1986, of four fat folios supplementing the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the most important dictionary venture since 1966, when Random House's first edition appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surveying The State of the Lingo THE RANDOM HOUSE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...horse but has a hard time keeping to a straight course. In the Blue Grass Stakes nine days earlier, Alysheba finished first but was demoted for swerving in the stretch. Deep thinkers who drop in on this sport once a year fretted for his confidence all week until Van Berg gently pointed out, "He doesn't know he was disqualified. He thinks he won the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Days Of Wine and Bloody Noses | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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