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...most of the first half, however, the squad was able to contain the Minutemen's 6-ft., 3-in. center Marsha Ready, holding her to a handful of points while building an early ten-point lead. But Harvard did not maintain pressure on the UMass frontline and the Minutemen crept back to within six at the half...

Author: By Jon Losos, | Title: UMass Edges Women Hoopsters, 49-48 | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...most unmelodic song, like the sound of someone shoveling gravel. But when U.C.L.A. Ornithologist Jared Dia mond crept forward for a closer look, he encountered a bizarre and beautiful spectacle. As he reported at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last week, there in a mile-high rain forest in western New Guinea was a golden-crested male bird about the size of a bluejay . It was standing in front of a remarkable structure of its own making, a 4-ft.-high bower of long sticks and fronds, shaped like a Maypole around a sapling and surrounded by three piles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Artful Builder | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Though they focused on more pleasant issues at last week's ceremony, the conflict rules inevitably crept into conversation. Early in the proceedings, Rosovsky had tacitly acknowledged that some faculty members were grumbling, as he turned his congratulatory message into a mini-lecture on "the primacy of University obligations." Professors, he stressed, should see the new building not as a gift from the University, but as "a trust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Cutting Edge | 10/10/1981 | See Source »

...musical power. The sex described on Sticky Fingers was somehow more pungent than before, the cynicism even more bitter. Exile had more of the same dripping decadence--the talk was of getting laid, getting wasted, and getting by, as it always has been, but a new theme of incongruity crept into the Jagger-Richards songs. Men born before the end of World War Two juggling groupies and shooting smack and throwing away millions on cars they wrecked and mansions they destroyed. Did all of that hold together? The Stones themselves had begun to wonder...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Black and Blue No More | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...many younger Jesuits were influenced as much by the radical politics of Antiwar Activist Father Daniel Berrigan as they were by the society's venerable manual, Spiritual Exercises. As Catholic Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University sees it, a "self-probing, inward-looking, almost narcissistic" mentality has crept into the order today. Liberals contend that they are only trying to do what Jesuits have always done: make the church and the teachings of Christ more relevant to the contemporary world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope's Troubled Marines | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

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