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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Outgoing Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, on the presidential election last November that saw President Bush defeat former K-School lecturer Michael S. Dukakis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

Harvard wasn't necessarily playing poorly--it simply wasn't playing at the level necessary to defeat a top-flight opponent such...

Author: By Jonathan D. Unger, | Title: Batswomen Split With Eagles | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...open the tournament, Harvard dropped a three-set match to eventual champion Princeton, 13-15, 15-11 and 10-15. The Tigers' second set defeat was its only loss in the tournament...

Author: By Tai Wong, | Title: Princeton, Dartmouth Edge Out Spikers | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

...defeat to the Tigers was on the squad's mind...

Author: By Tai Wong, | Title: Princeton, Dartmouth Edge Out Spikers | 4/11/1989 | See Source »

...leaders lost. Estonians even had the courage to vote down the republic's KGB chief. The city party leader in Leningrad, running against an unknown 28-year-old shipyard engineer, received only 15% of the vote. In fact, the five top Communists in the Leningrad power structure tumbled to defeat. Valeri Terekhov, a member of Leningrad's Democratic Union, an opposition group, noted, "Gorbachev opened a volcano, and I don't think he realized the lava was so deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: A Long, Mighty Struggle | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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