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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team placed third out of 38 teams, after Yale and the University teams, after Yale and the University of Toronto. Harvard won six of eight games at the four-day tournament, which was held over winter break in Columbus, Ohio...

Author: By Matthew L. Schuerman, | Title: Chess Team Forfeits to Yale | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...some teams, like Cornell and Yale, refuse to acknowledge the new powerhouse on the block. In its Ivy opener against Cornell, Harvard won the first two sets. Big Red players refused to believe it. "Come on, we're better than they are," they yelled to each other during the break...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Spikers' Search for Respect is Not Over | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...fact, as the whales futilely tried to break through the ice pack, some Eskimo hunters thought of putting them out of their misery. Even so, a swift coup de grace was mooted by a rush of television cameras and reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: Helping Out Putu, Siku and Kanik | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...still harvesting the fruits of what they determined almost 40 years ago." So said a Nobel official in Stockholm last week of the two Americans who won the prize for medicine for their pioneering work in drug therapy. It was an uncommon break with tradition: the Nobel committee recognized researchers in the commercial drug industry. Winners Gertrude Elion, 70, and George Hitchings, 83, are both affiliated with Burroughs Wellcome in North Carolina, and Sir James Black, 64, is now at King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Tales Of Patience and Triumph | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...still win," says a G. O. P. pollster. But as Bush holds on to a commanding lead, the Duke needs a big break -- plus more of the populist passion he showed last week. -- Jesse Jackson is back on the stump for the Democrats -- and for himself. -- Nancy Reagan returns some designer dresses. -- Should the U. S. double the cigarette tax? A campaign Essay on health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

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