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With the game scoreless in the fourth quarter, Harvard defensive back Bobby Frame blitzes from the weak side, catches Bush by surprise and sacks him in the endzone. The President's glasses crack and his three-piece suit gets smothered...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Anything Can Happen: Harvard Goes All the Way in '89 | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...offensive firepower to crack the Top 20 exists in junior forward John Marshall and sophomore forwards Mike Johnson, Peter Richards and Todd Forman, a standout relief pitcher for Alex Nahigian's baseballers in the spring. Richards led the squad in scoring last season with more than 40 goals, with Forman and Johnson rounding out the top three...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: In the Final Year of the Five-Year Plan | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Steel Wheels is the name of the record; Nothing Ventured would have suited too. It boasts five reprobates cranking themselves up for yet another crack at the distance, showing their years -- flaunting the things, in point of plain fact -- while they swan around some of the nation's largest concert stages, soaking up the applause and the revenues, blowing off their greatest hits, taking the new material out for an audience airing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rolling Stones: Roll Them Bones | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

After years of nagging Colombia to crack down on its cocaine gangsters, the U.S. is seeing the government literally risk its life to do so. Now the question is how hard America is prepared to fight the drug war in its own streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Too Far | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

Defiance like Mohammed's is only one crack in the facade of Palestinian unity. In the first 17 months of the uprising, nearly 50 Arabs were shot, beaten or hacked to death by fellow Arabs for collaborating with the Israelis; since May, that number has doubled. In fact, many are believed to have been gunned down to settle private accounts and labeled collaborators posthumously. Nonetheless, many Palestinians are appalled by the brutality, prompting an appeal in the latest leaflet from the uprising "not to eliminate collaborators without a decision by the leadership, and not before he is given a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Is the Intifadeh Losing Steam? | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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