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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really solid coaches' player who can play both offense and defense extremely well," said Harvard Coach Bill Cleary...

Author: By Mike Stankiewicz, | Title: On a Young Team, Sophomore C.J. is a Veteran Threat | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...will be a real good test for us," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary says. "They're an outstanding team, and we're going to go after them...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Some Olympic Guests | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

...Scene opens on a lone figure, Harvard hockey Coach Bill Cleary, pacing the mushy ice of Bright Center in late August. Cleary is contemplating the upcoming 1987-'88 Crimson season. He's smiling...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Burdens of a Tough Job | 11/7/1987 | See Source »

Then there are the funny "idea" statistics. There are 245 one-liners in an average Henny Youngman monologue. (0.4 percent of which involve the taking of his wife.) At today's rates, George Bernard Shaw ran up a $50,000 postal bill in his lifetime. Chicago's libraries have 7500 copies of Catcher in the Rye outstanding...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Untrivial Pursuits | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

...told about the Defense Department. All about it, from the value of items it misplaces in a year ($1,013,697,000) to it's yearly phone bill ($84,800,000)...to the number of cockroaches (2,000,000) estimated to be roaming around the Pentagon. Making their own contribution to the old debate over guns versus butter, the editors inform that it costs 263 pounds of butter for an M-16 rifle. Statistic has become metaphor...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Untrivial Pursuits | 11/3/1987 | See Source »

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