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...earlier on Saturday that the Crimson captured its most important win of the weekend over Yale, 8-1. The victory was particularly sweet because it gave Harvard the edge in a fifteen-game rivalry in which each team had been tied with seven wins each...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: Racquetwomen Top Yale, Dartmouth and F&M | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...Fifteen years ago, a court-ordered school desegregation plan tore apart the social fabric of Boston. Blacks bused to schools in white neighborhoods were threatened and even beaten, while many white politicians staked their political careers on attempts to reverse the progress towards racial integration in the schools. Boston city politics were defined by race...

Author: By Joshua M .sharfstein, | Title: 'Controlled Choice' in Boston | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

Cage created each Norton lecture by choosing entries from each of the fifteen sections of the book. He then selected passages from the writings of Wittgenstien, Fuller, McLuhan, Thoreau, Emerson, L.C. Beckett's Neti Neti and sentences from major newspapers...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Cage Delivers I Ching Talk At Third Norton Lecture | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

Whatever the scientific merits of the study, Wallerstein and co-author Sandra Blakeslee provide vivid portraits of just how devastating divorce can be for children. Deborah, for example, saw her parents split up when she was five, shortly after her father beat up her mother. Fifteen years later, she is a top student in college, but she has a habit of falling in love with "jerks." Deborah says her latest boyfriend really loves her: "I know he cares about me because he hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Lasting Wounds of Divorce | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...quick rebuttal, is not as comfortable as it says it is with the U.A.W., because when Toyota opened its own U.S. plant late last year, it avoided the union by choosing a site in Kentucky. Says Furuta, who works in Kentucky: "We need a free hand to choose people. Fifteen percent of our team members here have college degrees. That was true of only 1% in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fremont, Calif. Hands Across The Workplace | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

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