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Just to make sure, the home team added three runs in the sixth, one in the seventh, and three in the eighth. Harvard gave them some help with somewhat erratic fielding (the Crimson committed three, four or five errors, depending on whom you believe) as it watched its Eastern League...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bulldogs Shut Out Crimson Nine, 9-0 | 4/26/1980 | See Source »

By contrast, B.U. challenged the aggressive but erratic oarswomen, staying close for the duration before submitting by just under two lengths, posting a 5:42 flat to the Black and White's 5:32.0.

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Heavy weights Sweep in Weekend Races | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Collectivist systems have failed to achieve their professed ideals. Pure Communist societies, from 19th century Utopian communities like New Harmony, in Indiana, to the hippie communes of the late 1960s, have struggled with the reality of individual self-interest. Sixty years of Soviet efforts to make workers more productive and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism: Is It Working...? Of Course, but... | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

Tito's own physical stamina is doubtless the main reason for his survival, but another important factor has been the resourcefulness of his medical team, led by an old wartime comrade, Dr. Bogdan Brecelj, 74. The physicians have relied increasingly on medical machinery ever since his kidney failure and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Defying Odds | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

The explanation for Morgan's character is that no explanation exists. There are no cause-and-effect relationships in Morgan's personality. To Tyler, what makes Morgan run is an unfathomable extra something in all human beings that makes us people instead of machines. He has the individuality common to...

Author: By Paul R. Q. wolfson, | Title: Psychoerrata | 4/12/1980 | See Source »

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