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The Ivy League will never regain national prominence in major sports. Too many schools willing to dish out scholarships and occasionally overlook a fistful of D's on an athlete's report card are out there, ready to pounce on a top-notch athlete. The Ivy League will continue to...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: In Search of Parity | 4/28/1988 | See Source »

DAWN is rolling in like vicious thunder and so are we, floating at speed across the Nevada wastes with a half forgotten sense of purpose burning in our empty stomachs like the remnants of the whisky we had for breakfast--"Pills, pills," one of the Ginsburgs is yelling through the...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: On the Road | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

Four years ago in Venezuela, just the rumor of revolutionary new steroid tests sent U.S. musclemen stampeding back to the airport. But, as expressed by Ohio Hammer Thrower Jud Logan, the mood has calmed. "I like to be tested," he said, after a Pan Am record throw of 253 ft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heavy Harps and Pan Am Heroes | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

"Pssst! Wanna buy a cheap long-distance call?" Words to that effect are now being whispered in the vicinity of telephone booths across the country as part of a scam that costs U.S. phone companies anywhere from $6.5 million to $11 million a year. Hustlers who might once have peddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIP-OFFS: Reach Out and Rob Someone | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

And when a composer starts to write, indeed, he can use a little hustle. When Sergio Leone, in search of music for his new western, first met Morricone in 1964, the eager tyro whipped out an old photo of the two of them together as classmates at a Christian Brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ennio Morricone: The Lyrical Assassin at 5 a.m. | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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