Word: chris
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chris Starkmann went to Viet Nam as innocent as the narrator of Platoon. In this powerful novel, the veteran bitterly recalls the death wish of Ulysses: "Would God I, too, had died there . . . I should have had a soldier's burial and praise." Instead, the madness acquired 14 years earlier has been carried home, slowly eroding his marriage, his job and his life. A soldier is most vulnerable when he feels safest, he drunkenly repeats, and in the rough country of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where people have "no possibilities, no place to go," Chris comes to believe...
...basketballs endlessly on the blacktops of direst Los Angeles and was a mere eighth-round draft choice in 1980 because most of the baseball scouts were afraid to venture into the neighborhood. From the sound of it, the place had its charm. Davis, Darryl Strawberry of the Mets and Chris Brown of the Giants all took aim at the same high fence enclosing the 68th Street playground. They shot for 70th Street, and beyond...
...candidates. Wynand Malan, who quit the National Party in January to protest the government's slow changes on racial issues, scored an easy victory in Johannesburg's Randburg district. Denis Worrall, South Africa's former Ambassador to Britain, came within just 39 votes of beating Minister of Constitutional Development Chris Heunis, the architect of Botha's reform program and his possible successor, in Heunis' once safe Helderberg district near Cape Town. In the Afrikaner university town of Stellenbosch, another Nationalist defector, Esther Lategan, was beaten by an incumbent M.P., though she managed to reduce her opponent's majority from...
...NOTEBOOK: Yesterday's game marked the final Crimson appearance for seniors Mike Pakalnis, Craig Boulris (who went four-for-five yesterday), Kevin Curtain, Jim DePalo, Dave Jamieson, Chris Marchok, and Ed Toland...During the past two seasons, Chenevey has tossed 52 strikeouts in just 29 innings of work...McConaghy, after going four-for-five against Tufts on Wednesday and two-for-three yesterday, finished the season with a .404 batting average (36-for-89) to lead all Crimson batters; this marks a .204 increase over his 1986 average...
Crimson senior Chris Marchok, who pitched seven innings before giving way to Bob Baxter, improved his record to 4-2. In his last appearance for Harvard, Marchok gave up five hits while notching a season-high 11 strikeouts...