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Dates: during 1970-1979
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You don't normally expect a Buddhist monk to repair cars in his spare time, but the Dalai Lama used to.

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: A Lama on Wheels | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Don't look now, but the Harvard soccer team has won two games in a row. Shocking though it may seem, the Crimson shut out Dartmouth 2-0 yesterday afternoon on the Business School Field to even their record at 3-3-1 and in all probability, climb into the...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Booters Take Second Straight With 2-0 Win Over Dartmouth | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

But in accusing the Israelis of genocide, they have stamped practices with labels that simply don't apply. As events take their logical course, and speeches wind their way up to new pitches of frenzy, terms like racism, imperialism, and above all, genocide will cease to have meaning, the crime...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: By Any Other Name | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Wolff insists that despite its vile moments, "it had been fun to be my father's son." The joy is not apparent in his depictions of Duke's sick maneuvers. Case in point: an adolescent Geoffrey dubs a well-endowed schoolgirl "pear-shaped." When Duke finds out, he locks his...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

How does someone forgive such a man, much less such a father? Wolff recounts the feelings of betrayal, of abandonment, of sheer abhorrence he felt after his father's death. But eventually--or so he claims--he realizes, "I had forgotten I loved him, mostly, and mostly now I missed...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Daddy Dearest | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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