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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heading up one of the new summit triples, and then down "World Cup" we were a little disappointed. The night before the sno-cats had ground up the snow into golf ball-sized chunks--not the greatest surface for skiing. But the lower half of the mountain had been spared the sno-cats' wrath and was as good skiing as we would see on any mountain that...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Vermont's Best White Powder | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

That atmosphere cannot be found at Harvard proper. Studying in the dining halls is like getting trapped in a fluourescent bulb with a horde of albino slugs. Blinded by the reflection of trashy chandeliers off Pinesol-scrubbed linoleum, clutching a slowly melting styrofoam cup of tootsie-roll colored stomach acid, that is the dining hall experience...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: A Tragic Mug'n | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

...Muffin was the last local refuge of the honest-to-goodness, homey mug of coffee. When each cup has a cash bite, you lose the soothing, forevermore flow of half-mugs that can sit unnoticed...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: A Tragic Mug'n | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

MOST SPIRIT SINKING Already, starchy Newport, R.I., is stiffening itself to wait until at least 1995 before playing host again to the America's Cup. Even if the Cup is recaptured by one of the two surviving U.S. boats (Stars & Stripes out of San Diego and USA out of San Francisco), neither skipper is likely to choose the East Coast home of the swells for the next trip down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Most of '86 | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...urged her not to. "The nuns will be so disappointed," he said, "if they cannot offer you food." She insisted, adding that she would bring only a few crackers to keep up her strength. In the end, Cory could not refuse the nuns' hospitality, and she sipped a cup of their cream of mushroom soup with her crackers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cory Aquino: Starting the Campaign with Hope and a Prayer | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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