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Higgins' performance, in only the second meet of his cross country career, is notable since he is known as a half miler. The reemergence of Rippey, victimized by a virus for most of last year, also gives Harvard brighter hopes for the season...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Thinclads Win Ivy Duel | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...area of the world is more torn by strife, more poisoned by age-old hatreds, more strewn with the seeds of potential superpower conflict than the Middle East. And yet nowhere are there brighter chances for creative U.S. diplomacy to put an end to incessant bloodshed and lead the way to peace. The greatest opportunity of all has arisen, paradoxically, from the death and destruction of the war in Lebanon, which has upset political allegiances and power structures. Last week President Ronald Reagan launched a bold and ambitious initiative to seize the historic moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Fresh Start | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...quotes the U.S. Geological Survey estimate that "the area could provide more than nine times the oil believed to lie under Britain's North Sea, making it the largest untapped resource in the world." Boasts Hunt: "Out of Galtieri's folly, there can be a better and brighter future for the islanders. They should be able to cash in on the name that the Falklands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Saved but Still Fearful | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Larry Holmes: I Still Have It | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

...spotlight on Harvard's unique platform is never brighter than on Commencement Day While the University will break with tradition this afternoon to honor one of its own classics scholar John H. Finley `25 the speakers who grace the Commencement podium often arrive with worldwide fame and they occasionally leave having changed history...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Historic Speeches | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

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