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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some strange reason, all three comedians performing on Sunday night felt the need to reveal all kinds of embarrassingly dirty family and personal secrets which made everyone laugh but were really disturbing if you sat down and thought about it over a cup of arsenic-laden coffee. That is, unless they were lying, but comedians don't lie. Do they...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: OBSERVER | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

Harvard defeated the Bulldogs, 6-1, on Yale's home court in the Howe Cup Tournament earlier this month to capture the national seven-woman championships...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Racquetwomen Avenge Yale, 8-1 | 2/25/1987 | See Source »

Harvard ha defeated Dartmouth, 7-0, in the Howe Cup tournament February 8, to capture the seven-woman national championship...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Racquetwomen Zip Dartmouth | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

However, if the Crimson defeats Yale tomorrow at Hemenway to close its Ivy season at 5-0, it will snag the title outright. Harvard demolished Yale, 6-1, in the Howe Cup tourney...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Racquetwomen Zip Dartmouth | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...infatuated with the Masai. Yet certain details of their lives, like the flies that sometimes cake their lips and eyelids, can be disgusting. The Masai dwell in the world's most magnificent spaces. Yet to stoop at midday to enter one of their dung-walled huts to share a cup of tea is to be plunged immediately into an impenetrable, claustrophobic gloom, choked with smoke. A laser beam of sunlight fires through the darkness from a window the size of a Kenya five-shilling piece. It takes three minutes for the eyes to adjust and make out the dim outlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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