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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Bill Cleary knows the skeptics pointed to his squad's youth and inexperience. They said that Harvard would not successfully defend its ECAC crown. Too many hungry teams in the league. Cleary doesn't have to be reminded about this...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Fooling the Skeptics | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly hieratic tomb effigies of dead lords like Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, lying cross-legged and pointy-toed as though about to leap up from the slab, his sword half-drawn from its scabbard to show his readiness to defend the Christian faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blazing Exceptions to Nature | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...unsung hero will again lead the Crimson football squad when it seeks to defend its Ivy crown next year...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Gridders' Peterson Named 115th Captain | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

...jeopardize his chances of parole. A lower court ordered NBC to surrender the film, but Kennedy struck down the ruling as being "aimed toward prepublication censorship." Said the judge: "It is a fundamental principle of the First Amendment that the press may not be required to justify or defend what it prints or says until after the expression has taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Far More Judicious | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

DOUGLAS GINSBURG deserved to have his nomination to the Supreme Court shot down because his drug use as a Harvard professor and a Supreme Court clerk demonstrated a fundamental disrespect for the laws it is his duty to defend. A duly elected legislature passed the measure forbidding marijuana use. No judge has ruled the law unconstitutional. Yet for some reason Ginsburg believed that he did not have to obey...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Brazen Disregard for the Law | 11/19/1987 | See Source »

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