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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DURHAM, N.H.--The finest season in the 10-year history of Harvard women's ice hockey is over...

Author: By Ken Segel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wildcats Strike Icewomen Deathly Blow; UNH Drops Crimson, 4-1, in ECAC Semis | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...board first with 4:09 gone in the opening period, Harvard's Brita Lind answered just 50 seconds later with a tenacious, length-of-ice drive and dish to Julia Trotman, who tucked the puck past Wildcat goalie Cathy Narsiff--considered by many to be the finest netminder in the women's game...

Author: By Ken Segel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wildcats Strike Icewomen Deathly Blow; UNH Drops Crimson, 4-1, in ECAC Semis | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Statistics tell an incomplete tale, however. Duncan is Harvard's ice to fellow Co-Captain Keith Webster's fire, the cool floor leader who clams the young Crimson squad. Duncan is also a great ball-handler for a big man, and probably Harvard's finest passer...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Tracking An Unusual Inner-City Talent | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

...skin was being scorched by Watergate did Richard Nixon sacrifice Aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. He found the courage to tell each of them face to face in tearful meetings at Camp David that they must resign. Then he praised them publicly as "two of the finest public servants" he had ever known. Jimmy Carter defended Bert Lance as innocent of shady banking practices and brushed off advice that he ask his longtime friend to leave his post as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. "I could not bring myself to do it," Carter later explained. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firing Is Hard to Do | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...from Sanskrit and roughly connotes "vitality" and "life," and thus gives some indication of both the piece's formidable substance and its stunning effect. Its thundering chord progressions and leaping, birdlike themes, its mixture of brutal dissonance and sunny consonance, make Turangalila-Symphonie one of the French composer's finest creations. It is difficult for both performer and listener, which may be why it is rarely played in concert. It does, however, offer a splendid workout for a CD player. Finnish Conductor Salonen, 28, leads an assured performance that serves notice of his arrival as an important young maestro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Discs Offer Sound Trips | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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