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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD 23, YALE 2: A note of history here, something the oddsmakers like to look at--since the mid-'60s, the team that's entered. The Game with the better season record has won ten times out of 14. There's no reason for history to fail this time around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/19/1983 | See Source »

WITH ALL these tales to tell, there's no way the production could fail. The only weakness is that the stories rarely mesh, leaving each performance isolated. Director Patrick Bradford tries to combat the problem by casting the actors in one another's tales. But because the stories are so separate, each actor tends to stand alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All My Children | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...times in your life you're going to have a lot of problems, you'll be trying hard and you'll fail. But it's not the end of the world, you just have to pick yourself up and work harder...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Deserves credit, shuns dessert | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...Caribbean are more complicated. Says British Lawyer N.A. Maryan Green: "Our present-day notions of aggression are antiquated. The invasion of Grenada has brought to the forefront the necessity to redefine some terms in international law." Green and other experts are afraid that current readings of international law fail to take account of the many acts of indirect aggression that increasingly shape world politics. Says Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, a former French Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Aggression? | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...Geneva conference. As Walid Jumblatt, no friend of the young Lebanese President's, put it last week, "If the Americans send Gemayel back emptyhanded, it will be the end of him." Whatever the solution may be, the U.S. at this stage cannot afford to let Gemayel fail. -By William E. Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: New Bloodshed, New Hope | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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