Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last weekend illustrated that last season's glory is irrelevant now, except in that other teams are even more determined to upset the defending national champions...
...biggest regatta I've won at Harvard," Bowers said. "It was the strongest field you'll find in the country except for may be the nationals...
What is it about the Stadium that paralyzes the usually-potent Quaker football team? Penn has shared or won outright the Ivy League title every season since 1981 except for the Crimson's 1987 Ivy-winning campaign. In those seven seasons, the Quaker's Ivy record is 39-6-1 outside the Stadium, 0-3 inside the Stadium...
...fact is that nothing has changed since the spring, except for the degree of student enthusiasm about the issue. The statistics are well-known by now: only 6.3 percent of the University's senior faculty are women; 6.2 percent are minorities. And for tenure-track junior faculty, the statistics are not much better: 16.9 percent are women, 8.6 percent are minorities...
...male buddies, poised at the uneasy boundary between youth and middle age, sprawl in an overdecorated apartment and dish the dirt about opera singers. None can meet their fierce standards except Maria Callas (a performance by whom provides the play's title). They admire her for blending technique and emotion and, more deeply, for enduring a sad life and lonely death. Other artists, they say, impersonate the passion and hysterics of opera; she lived them...