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Harvard followed up a 15-0 pasting of Brown last Wednesday with an 18-5 shellacking of Cornell last Friday. But those easy wins paled in significance next to yesterday's cakewalk...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Slip, Sliding Away: Laxwomen Roll | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...case you missed it--which most of you probably did--be assured that this B.U. team was no cakewalk. Not that the Terriers will set the field hockey world on fire any day soon, but they did present a formidable challenge with freshmen June O'Hara and JoAnne Griffin and goalie Paige Whittle...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Stickwomen Bounce Back, Hand Terriers 2-0 Loss | 9/30/1983 | See Source »

Washington, 60, plans to run all out in the general election campaign. "He'll take nothing for granted," said Adviser Bill Zimmerman. "It's not going to be a cakewalk." In fact, the April showdown may be the closest thing in decades to a real two-party contest in Chicago. Washington's opponent, former State Legislator Bernard Epton, 61, received only 12,000 votes in last week's uncontested Republican primary. But now, with the possibility of Democratic white flight to the Epton camp, the Republican Party is dispatching some of its bigger guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Black Mayor for Chicago? | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...himself come January. And that is the way it undoubtedly should be. The economic emergency in Michigan prevents any "let-business-do-the-trick" Reaganomic shilly-shallying. But it is a shame that a 300-watt diverted attention away from economic issues. James Blanchard has enjoyed a cakewalk, instead of a race to the wire, which might have transformed him from a Democratic idealist into a much-needed leader...

Author: By Thomas H. Howtell, | Title: Gaffee of the year | 11/2/1982 | See Source »

...told the officials they have had 467 days since Reagan's Inauguration to do something about arms control but have produced nothing. "He's pounding the table for all of us," chimed in Massachusetts Democrat Paul Tsongas. "This issue will make Viet Nam seem like a Cakewalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deadly Dilemma | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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