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...life of student-athletes at Harvard can be pretty dismal. Early mornings, long practices, physical exhaustion, almost total campus indifference. There are few Christian Laettners here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playing Foul | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

Exactly. The Irish squad had no inside game, forcing them to rely on the three-point shot too often. Still, had they not shot a dismal 35 percent from the floor, the outcome may have been different...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: They're Just a Little Green Around the Edges | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

Union begins this season with little hope of improving on, shall we say, a dismal year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Headed for Top, Union for Cellar | 11/13/1992 | See Source »

...billion last year -- $1,700 for every car, truck and van it sold in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The red ink was stanched somewhat by GM's car business outside North America, whose $2.1 billion profit helped cut the overall yearly loss to $4.5 billion -- still the most dismal showing ever by an American company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Went Wrong? Everything at Once. | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

Perhaps it is just that the Crimson sports staff does not care one whit about us. Even though we have the best record of all fall sports teams (9-1-1). Even though we might have provided one bright spot in an otherwise dismal sports weekend at Harvard. This school has more varsity sports (40) than any other university in the country, and it is a shame that we only hear about 10 of them. Per year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marginalizing Certain Sports | 11/6/1992 | See Source »

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