Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing is constant except change...except at the Union. The lines are still long and still slow. Braying fools still jump ahead of you to be with their friends. People still get in the right line because it's shorter when the left line is much closer to the food. There is still a mad mob around the drinks and the salad bar and breakfast pastries...
Well, at least the 20-mile-per-hour headwinds might cause the Crimson enough trouble to allow an upset, right? Wrong--just a closer margin of victory, as Harvard (2-0) pulled out to an early lead and was never challenged, finishing its home course in 6:38.99. Dartmouth finished one length behind in 6:44.11 and the Engineers limped into port with a time...
...Saturday night some 6,000 Moscow teenagers pack into the Luzhniki sports amphitheater, a warehouse-like hall that is usually the venue for hockey matches and basketball games. Off-duty soldiers, their pink faces fuzzy with adolescent stubble, scuffle to get closer to the stage, while packs of young girls giggle at their antics. It might be a concert anywhere in America -- except that no T shirts are for sale, no hot dog vendors trawl the aisles, and, most of all, no one smokes anything stronger than cigarettes...
...were dealing with the escalating use of tactics all over the country," Skotnes says. And while the U.S.'s involvement abroad prompted conflict at some campuses, issues closer to home also resulted in confrontations between students and universities...
Despite repeated furious attacks, mujahedin rebels were no closer to capturing the city of Jalalabad last week. They seemed to be suffering from disorganization as well as an inability to pull off major assaults. In one battle last week, rebel artillery pounded the Soviet-backed government's positions at the city's airport for hours at a time, but the several hundred guerrillas who mustered to rush the defenses never got going -- the attack bogged down under return fire and arguments within their own ranks over how to attack across several hundred yards of open ground...