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Harvard's best performance appeared in the first game, when the match's furious pace foreboded the war to come. The contest was so close that neither team led by more than three points at any time. Pitt managed to open leads of 2-0, 4-2 and 7-5, but each time the Crimson fought back to tie the score through superb defense and the inspired outside spiking of senior Mark Chang and junior David Twite...
...reaction in Peking was fast and furious. In a chilly half-hour meeting, Vice Foreign Minister Han Xu delivered a stiff protest to American Ambassador Arthur Hummel Jr. Social contacts with American diplomats in China were instantly chilled, and cultural and athletic exchange programs were suspended for the rest of the year, the first official downgrading of ties by Peking since diplomatic relations between the two countries were formally restored in January 1979. At the minimum, the Hu Na incident symbolized the growing tensions between the Reagan Administration and the People's Republic. "The U.S. Government has kept doing...
...other semi-final match pits a strong University of Pittsburgh squad against underdog Albany State. The Panthers' fast, confusing offense, featuring much switching and low, quick sets should dominate Albany State. Should Harvard meet Pitt in the finals the spikers will counter the Panthers' furious pace with quickness up front from Chang and Twite. In this scenario Ross' height will be especially missed...
...case began on Nov. 8,1980, when a white police officer, Gregory Neupert, 23, was found dead, shot in the neck in a predominantly black neighborhood of the Algiers section of New Orleans. The police mounted a furious probe, in the course of which four blacks were killed by investigators under circumstances that are still not entirely clear. Then Police Superintendent James Parsons resigned. Grand juries were convened to investigate the killings and consider allegations of police beatings of three blacks and one white in order to obtain leads and evidence in the Neupert case...
...premier deejays of the rap scene is Grandmaster Flash, who, with his MCs, the Furious Five, turned out one of 1982's best singles, a seven-minute-long and atypically political number called The Message. Flash and the crew are treach, which is short for treacherous and slang for what a decade ago would have been called superfine. Grandmaster favors leathers, tip to toe, and has FLASH spelled out in lightning-bolt letters on the back of his jacket. Mr. Ness, of the Furious Five, favors metal studs, while his compatriot, Melle Mel, currently opts for fur. This...