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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students have gained a lot of intangibles from Harvard's stellar investment performance. We can brag about attending the nation's richest school. We can marvel that Harvard's 100-strong team of in-house investors rivals the lineups of top Wall Street firms, or at least we could marvel until recently...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 10/28/1987 | See Source »

...Lions tied the Elis, 3-3. The New York media finally had a college football team it could brag about. I finally had a team to be proud of. While my other friends talked about Penn St. and Michigan, I warned them about Columbia sneaking away with the national championship. I was just...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Longing for the Cowbell Ring | 10/15/1987 | See Source »

...first displays of rock talent occur, fittingly, in a redneck bar and an American Legion Hall. Ritchie also misses no opportunity to brag of his ignorance of Spanish. He only learns his parents' tongue so that he can rip off a Mexican folksong, jazz it up with a rock beat, and make millions...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: La Bamba | 7/31/1987 | See Source »

...legend -- like Oct. 29, 1986, when a single midafternoon accident on the San Diego Freeway spread gridlock along connecting freeways and surface streets from downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, trapping tens of thousands of motorists for eight full hours. (Survivors of such mythic urban struggles brag about them like good ole boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Trapped Behind The Wheel | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

Army personnel will be asked to keep an eye out for suspicious incidents, including colleagues who claim to be taking short trips within the U.S. but who return with foreign currency, those who brag about working with classified data and strangers who ask for base telephone listings. The Army concedes that no spies were caught during the system's testing period; indeed, the Army has not had a major espionage case in recent years. "We're trying to maintain this record," says Lieut. Colonel Richard Holk, a spokesman for the Army's Intelligence and Security Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Dialing For Spies | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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