Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia broke the Division I record for most consecutive losses--it was 34 before last season, now it's 41 and counting--and earned lasting glory.
September 19, 1987: The Harvard football team gets off on the right foot. The Columbia football team tries to get off on the right foot, but puts its left foot forward instead, trips and falls flat on its face. Harvard triumphs, 35-0, sending Columbia to its 32nd straight loss...
November 7, 1987: The Crimson football squad gets a taste--no, a 16-ounce glass-full--of humility. Harvard goes against the best team in Division I-AA, the Holy Cross Crusaders, and gets an unholy beating, 41-6.
Trench warfare in the executive suites. Longtime employees suddenly thrown into the street. An emotional battle for the very soul of an institution. The biggest headlines at CBS News over the past few years seem to have originated mostly behind the cameras. No company's inside gossip has been the...
( Prime Times, Bad Times (Doubleday, $19.95) was written by a key insider from this period: Ed Joyce, who served as Sauter's top deputy, succeeded him as news division president in 1983, and was ousted two years later. Joyce was an unpopular figure, viewed by his staff as an aloof...