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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, SASC members and others who would like to see an increase in student participation in running Harvard defeat themselves by doing so little to expand their agenda. The most serious problem is not the closed nature of the Board. Rather, it is within the movement itself, in that its members have been inspired not so much by glasnost as by divestment. So long as activists are more concerned about individual issues than openness, the movement can never succeed...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Glasnost at Harvard | 10/1/1987 | See Source »

...much for the agony of defeat...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Six Singing Spikers Swamped | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

...much for the agony of defeat "We lost at the net," Co-Captain Maia Forman said. "They were bigger and stronger at the net. We had a hard time adjusting to the different line-up without Suzie playing...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Six Singing Spikers Swamped | 9/24/1987 | See Source »

Since then, it's only been the agony of defeat, over and over and over Thirty-two times over...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Those Losin' Lions | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

When Paul D, another slave from the Sweet Home farm in Kentucky, fetches up at Sethe's address 18 years later, he finds evidence of defeat rather than triumph. Sethe's two oldest children, both boys, have run away. The youngest, the girl Denver, seems hostile and reclusive. The third child, also a girl, is long since dead, but her spirit disruptively haunts Sethe's house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something Terrible Happened BELOVED | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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