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This is why we must look to the lessons of that spring of a decade ago. Because, in fact, that strike was a good thing--it produced concessions, albeit small ones, on each of the issues of concern to the students of that day. The victories were hard-fought--most of the violence that so alarmed the press was in fact directed against student demonstrators by the police Pusey had called in--but they were real, vivid proof that students can, when they choose, have an effect on even this school. In the ten years that have passed since then...
...after 69 minutes and 33 seconds of hard-fought, intense struggle, Yvon Lambert took a perfect cross-ice pass from teammate Mario Tremblay and without hesitation slipped the puck between the pads of Bruin goalie Gilles Gilbert. The shot gave Montreal a 5-4 come-from-behind win and the sudden-death semifinals-winning goal that the 17,453 in attendance and most of Canada had been praying...
This is why we must look to the lessons of that spring of a decade ago. Because, in fact, the strike was a good thing--it produced concessions, albeit small ones, on each of the issues of concern to the students of that day. The victories were hard-fought--most of the violence that so alarmed the press was in fact directed against student demonstrators by the police Pusey had called in--but they were real, vivid proof that students can, when they choose, have an effect on even this school. In the ten years that have passed since then...
COLLEGE PARK, Md.--Playing in conditions satisfactory only to a masochistic kite flier, the Harvard tennis team battled a feisty University of Maryland team and crosswinds gusting to more than 40 miles per hour here yesterday and emerged with a hard-fought, 5-4 victory...
...sizable contingent of UNH fans went nuts, and the Wildcats mobbed their captain and each other. A few minutes later, after Tourney MVP Greg Moffat frustrated a few desperate, last-minute Big Green attempts to send the game into overtime, the icemen from Durham, N.H., had grabbed a hard-fought contest, 3-2. It was their first ECAC Division One championship in ten tries at post-season play...