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Cornell beat Penn to share the Ivy crown with the Quakers. Last year, Harvard defeated Yale to grab the league title outright. Two years ago, Penn nipped Cornell to take home an outright crown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Red, Quakers Split Ivy League Crown | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...campaign in which the bumbling incumbent Republican David Karnes declared that Nebraska needs "fewer farmers," and admitted he felt so inexperienced that he considered Dan Quayle an "elder statesman," former Democratic Governor Bob Kerrey did not need great strengths of his own to grab Karnes' Senate seat. Yet the charismatic Kerrey has charm and spontaneity that seem to transcend the issues. In a predominantly Republican state, Kerrey won while opposing SDI, aid to the contras and a constitutional amendment to ban abortions. Admitted Karnes: "He's a personality in this state, someone who turns up in People magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven New Faces | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Dukakis made these absurd accusations credible by his refusal to take them seriously. On the Pledge, he did not angrily grab the flag back and say it belongs to all Americans and he would defend it always, but constitutionally; he just cited Massachusetts' highest court, as if putting a footnote in a law- review article. On the A.C.L.U., he did not get indignant that the honor of good people (people who had, by the way, sued him as Governor of Massachusetts) was being impugned. Protectors of civil liberties should not be mistreated, any more than his own wife should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Populist | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

Receivers: Three Harvard players have more than 30 catches this year--Hinz, Neil Phillips and Don Gajewski. Last week, though, only Hinz contributed much to the air attack. Gajewski finished with one catch for three yards. Phillips was held without a grab. If Yohe pulls together and starts, look for Gajewski and Phillips to turn in great days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scouting Report | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

After losing to Cornell in the first round and dropping to the losers' bracket last Friday, the Crimson rallied to grab an exciting five-set victory against Columbia...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Spikers Take Sixth at Ivy Tournament | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

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