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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the story of the Board's founding is filled with coincidences and improbable twists of fate, ultimately the saga serves only to confirm Harvard's love of chance. Engendered in the Housing Lottery and confirmed in random assignments to the final, needed-for-graduation core class, the arbitrary hand of fate plays a crucial, yet romantic, role in the lives of Harvard undergraduates...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Bored of Justice | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

Class marshals announced Sunday that the Governor had been asked to speak, but did not confirm that he would appear until yesterday...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Duke Will Give Class Day Talk | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...United News of India said some witnesses at the scene said the bomb apparently was in a car parked in front of a branch of the Bank of Ceylon near the bus terminal. Police said they could not immediately confirm the report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Blast in Sri Lanka 150 Killed, 200 Injured | 4/22/1987 | See Source »

Data recently collected from the first exploded star close enough to Earth to be seen with the naked eye in four centuries has helped astronomers confirm their theories about how stars cease to shine, Harvard scientists said yesterday...

Author: By Benjamin R. Miller, | Title: Astronomers Observe Supernova | 4/11/1987 | See Source »

Elizabeth Stern diagnosed herself as having a mild case of multiple sclerosis. But the couple did not have a specialist confirm the diagnosis until late 1986, did not inquire whether the disease affected her ability to bear a healthy child, and did not seek to adopt a child. William Stern wanted a genetic link. Yet if Sorkow is to be believed, these facts reveal nothing about the Sterns' fitness to be parents...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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