Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Temple's lacrosse team would not be the first top-seeded Owl team to lose in an NCAA Tournament this season. Duke upset Temple and its star Mark Macon in the March NCAA Basketball Tournament in March with great defense from Blue Devil forward Billy King. Harvard will need such an effort from Dermody, Maggie Vaughan, Julia French, and the other defensive stalwarts...
...Duke (19th) will face 15th-ranked Arizona in the first round. The winner will play Stanford (2nd) the following day. The Blue Devils will upset the Wildcats in the first round, but the Cinderella story will end there...
...McBride swept through George Balanchine's The Man I Love looking half her 45 years. Company Director Peter Martins came out of retirement to honor his ideal partner, Suzanne Farrell, 42, who had a new plastic hip, performing with her in his version of Sophisticated Lady, set to the Duke Ellington song. The finale, danced like fireworks by Kyra Nichols, came from Balanchine's ebullient Stars and Stripes. It was just like old times, and everyone wanted to savor the nostalgia...
...this shifting climate, students have tried to ensure themselves of admission by firing off more and more applications. One Massachusetts boy sent 17 -- an expensive proposition at an average of $30 per application. Such tactics can backfire when students spread themselves too thin. Duke's Steele recalls a hastily written application from a girl who had a "wonderful record, wonderful boards, but her essay was just six sentences long." In addition, many colleges, overwhelmed by the flood of applications and fearing that there will be an unmanageable jump in enrollment, are actually accepting fewer students than in the past. Cornell...
...Democrats' disciplined, self- contained candidate surges halfway to the nomination and dims chances of a Jackson upset. But can the Duke pull together the party' s disparate elements? -- As President, Dukakis would be decisive and fast- moving on the domestic front. -- The candidate and his wife Kitty are a study in contrasts. -- Al Gore, we hardly knew ye. See NATION...