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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Countdown: 5,4,3... In the last five weeks the Crimson have slowly inched its way closer to the top of the ISAA and Soccer America national Division I rankings. After moving from fifth into the fourth-place spot in both polls last week, Harvard has managed to nab third in the latest Soccer America ranking...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Some Close Calls | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

Harvard finally played closer to its potential, matching the Huskies point for point in the third...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: UConn Rolls Through Spikers | 11/12/1987 | See Source »

...second set was a little closer, with Lem mixing up his starters with the second-stringers. Harvard jumped out to a 7-3 advantage, but Assumption rallied to tie the match...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: W. Spikers Sweep Assumption, Wheaton | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...conferences, which could have been outstanding opportunities to learn what I was doing right as well as what I was doing wrong, turned out to be hurried fifteen minute encounters where the pat comment was, "spend more time editing and to get closer to the text." It was a fair criticism of my writing, but no one ever showed me in class or in conference the way to go about it. If the Expos staff were a football team, its cheerleaders would chant, "Closer to the text," as if this would really help lead the team to victory...

Author: By Patrick J. Long, | Title: Writing at Harvard: The Source of the Problem | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

...unborn individual will be subject to heart disease or cancer or schizophrenia raise a new round of issues. Would altering the defective genes in utero be ethically permissible, given the risk of unforeseen results for future generations? The moral dilemmas spawned by the high-tech world of biomedicine -- closer to salvation or Pandora's box? -- are sufficient to keep Callahan and his Hastings associates busy for a lifetime. A natural life-span, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Examining The Limits of Life | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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