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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard when the education is as good elsewhere and the skiing is much better? "I felt I'd gotten as high as I could go at Burke, I wasn't going to ever be better than some of those people. I'd given serious skiing a shot there. It's funny, though as I go down the course now I always feel off balance, out of control, like my weight is on my inside ski. But I'm finishing closer behind the same people that were ahead of me when I was at Burke, I guess they've all slowed...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Crimson's Kris Hodgkins Skis Little, Regularly Records Top-Ten Placements | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...hold our own or better against any team there--everyone's looking forward to it," she added...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Ivy Tournament to Open Today | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...When the season started, we were just hoping to be competitive in this tournament," Crimson coach Bertagna said; "now we're hoping to do a lot better than that...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Ivy Tournament to Open Today | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...group of people with a useful technology that could change things for the better," he says. Today he is the church's Minister of Public Affairs and the drummer for "Inferno," a rock band...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Scientology's Way: Linking Soul and Science | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...defense was a lot better than it had been, and they just weren't hitting," Holpuch added with a hint of understatement...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Women Hoopsters Crush Brown, 68-41 | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

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