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Just in case the Harvard Law grad does decide to toss his hat into the ring, here are a few Duke facts you can impress your friends with at cocktail parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: after the facts | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...this club [Harvard] is pretty good. They impress me as a team with a lot of character. We gave them all they could handle tonight, and they handled it," he said...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Two Streaks For Number OneX | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

That unassuming style reflects a person with a very precise sense of herself and her limits. Aquino recognizes the vanity of vanity. "I've reached a point in life," she says, "where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad." It is that same kind of detached self-possession that enables her, in the midst of pandemonium, to remain as composed as a sermon. "A single word of anger from her or any suggestion of violence ((at Ninoy's funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...least objectionable behaviors were "boring ingratiation," or trying to be funny and nice to impress others, and a mixture of distracting behaviors such as going off on tangents or overusing small talk or slang, such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study Says Egocentrics Are Most Boring | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...temporary pact, which holds only through the end of the year, did not impress oil traders. After the announcement, the price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate Crude fell from $15.19 to close the week at $15.02. OPEC must meet again in December to set 1987 production levels, and many analysts think the current agreement may collapse, perhaps sending the price of oil back below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opec: An Early- Morning Truce | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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