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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to give us a sense that there is a lot going on at the same time, they succeeded. But who wants to hear about a missed free throw in the first few minutes of a basketball match when one could be concentrating on the world's finest diver's best effort...

Author: By Jeffrey P. Meier, | Title: Split-Screen Seoul Ache | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

Boston comes equipped with several excellent publications which provide good sports coverage. The Boston Globe has one of the finest--if not the finest--sports pages in the country. Leigh Montville is a first-rate columnist...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Boston: World's Sports Hub | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

...finest athletes I've played with," says halfback Tony Hinz. "He puts incredible pressure on a defense. He can sprint-out, run and to top it all of off, he's a prolific passer...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Running and Throwing His Way Into the Record Books | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

Boston comes equipped with several excellent publications which provide good sports coverage. The Boston Globe has one of the finest, if not the finest, sports pages in the country. Leigh Montville is a first-rate columnist. The Herald puts a flashier twist on the sports news. And, if you want statistics, you can always pick up a copy of USA Today...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Boston: Hub of the Sporting World | 9/11/1988 | See Source »

...stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." So wrote Anna Akhmatova, perhaps Russia's finest woman poet, in Requiem, a moving testimony to those who kept vigils outside prison gates for loved ones swept away in the Stalinist reign of terror. Written between 1935 and 1940, the poem was not officially published in full until last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Poetic Justice | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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