Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February, not December, but this Tuesday, Harvard will have its chance to pull off one of the greatest upsets in college sports when Danny Ferry and the Duke Blue Devils come to Cambridge...
...Duke, a dominant force in the Atlantic Coast Conference, has made five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. The Blue Devils have had two Final Four berths in the last three years and have sat at the top of the national polls for most of this season--until suffering through a string of four losses in January...
Last year's score: Duke 121, Harvard...
This Boy's Life proves good enough to be unforgettable. Tobias Wolff, 43, is the author of two collections of stories and The Barracks Thief (1984), a critically acclaimed novella. He is also the younger brother of Geoffrey Wolff, whose own memoir, The Duke of Deception (1979), introduced tens of thousands of readers to the bizarre saga of the Wolff family. Although these two narratives have kinship and blood in common, they spring from dissimilar circumstances. The parents split up when the brothers were young. Geoffrey stayed east with his flamboyantly fraudulent father; Tobias drifted west with his mother...
Defenders of abortion rights have good reason to be concerned. Says Duke University Law Professor Walter Dellinger: "This is not a case that needs to be heard unless the court wants to review Roe v. Wade." Since the court's last major abortion ruling in 1986, Justice Lewis Powell, who was part of the pro-choice majority, has been replaced by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Choice advocates feel Kennedy would not have been appointed unless President Reagan believed he was willing to strike down Roe. The increasingly vocal right-to- life supporters, smelling possible victory for their cause, were delighted...