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Sophomore four-man Eric Davis is inexperienced in any terms. The former runner had never rowed before this season, and is the first novice to crack the Harvard Eight in recent memory...
Hoping to crack Princeton's stranglehold on lightweight rowing for the past three seasons, Harvard's narrow loss in the first race of the spring to the first race of the spring to the normally docile Quakers was disappointing for the Crimson oarsmen--not to mention surprising--but hardly a critical blow...
...winds of Western-style democratic change, which they derisively label "bourgeois liberalization." Led by Peng Zhen, 85, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the conservatives showed their power in the ouster of Hu, Deng's hand-picked successor, who was fired for failing to crack down on massive student demonstrations last December that called for democratic freedoms...
...million worth of Japanese merchandise -- ranging from TV sets to X- ray film -- in retaliation for Tokyo' s failure to honor an agreement on trade in semiconductors. The move reflects Washington' s rising impatience with the U. S. trade deficit in general and with Japan in particular. -- Authorities crack a $550 million tax- shelter scheme...
...country dissipated. Even though the president again admitted his utter lack of knowledge about the goings on that resulted in one of the worst foreign policy disasters and breaches of the Constitution in recent memory, journalists told the American people that President Reagan was "presidential." He even managed to crack a one-liner...