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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious standout has been Mather House's Elizabeth Evans, the Crimson's top singles player. Evans has upheld the national reputation she gained in grade school with impressive wins over all of her Ivy opponents as well as the top players at U.C-Santa Barbara and U.C-Irvine...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Levy, | Title: Netwomen Still Undefeated in Ivies | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

...recipients were selected from a group of 17 juniors with high grade-point averages, Joanna Roche, Radcliffe staff assistant, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Grade-B dialogue makes these stock characters still more one-dimensional. With lines like "I wouldn't swap the sunlit plains for all the tea in China," and "a man without a horse is like a man without legs," the movie virtually kneels down and begs to be taken lightly. Throw in a choppy film-editing job that leaves you wondering if someone removed the cornflake commercials, and little remains save the unexceptional plot...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Same Old Frontier Epic | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...national scandal is as well documented as it is alarming. Half of all U.S. high school students take no math or science beyond the tenth grade, and half of all teachers hired to teach math and science at the secondary level are not certified in those disciplines. Hoping to find ways to make education for high technology a top national priority, Governor James Hunt of North Carolina and Dr. David Hamburg, president of the Carnegie Corporation, assembled a blue-ribbon panel of 50 business, education and government leaders. Last week the coalition issued a report declaring that the present economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Washington Should Lead the Way | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

After picking up the game in seventh grade, Finn quickly matured into one of the top players in Philadelphia--the nation's premier lacrosse breeding ground. She led her high school squad to three straight league championships. In her spare time, she managed to captain the school's field hockey and basketball teams to a few titles as well...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Maureen Finn: Offering Her All | 4/15/1983 | See Source »

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