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...although Melrose didn't hear a lot of whistles, he did get in his weekly quota of hits. He had a key takedown on a Joel Gardner breakaway in the third period of the Colgate game and crumpled Cornell star Kent Manderville twice on Sunday...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: "Yes Virginia, There is a Hockey Team" | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

Holtz avoided a lifetime sentence in the mills and went off to Kent State, where he played as a lightweight and little-noticed linebacker. After graduation, he learned his craft as a ubiquitous assistant coach in a succession of schools: Iowa, William and Mary, Connecticut. But it was after accepting a job at the University of South Carolina, only to watch helplessly as the position was temporarily eliminated, that Holtz began to lay out the rest of his life with some purpose. He made a list of 107 things he wished to accomplish, naturally including leading the Fighting Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fella Expects To Win: Notre Dame coach LOU HOLTZ | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Show-biz stirrings came early. As a teenager, Hall hired himself out as a magician at parties and played drums and bass guitar in a couple of groups. He started college at Ohio University and finished at Kent State, where he majored in speech communication and played the lead in the musical Purlie Victorious. After graduation, Hall went to work in Detroit for Noxell, the makers of Noxema skin cream. But one evening after tuning in to a Tonight show segment, he decided the moment had come "to do what I'd been dreaming about." He quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Let's Get Busy!! | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...following map, covering some of the widest territory of any of the archival maps found in recent years, was unearthed recently near the ancient meeting grounds of the early humanoid known as Homo Careerist. Dr. Kent Palmer, professor of precivilization business sociology at the University of Canton, has written that this map represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Career Form 89 | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

...Irish Republican Army immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. In a statement that was released in Dublin, the I.R.A. noted that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had "visited occupied Ireland with a message of war when we want peace. Now we in turn have visited the Royal Marines in Kent." Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister had toured Northern Ireland and praised the Ulster Defense Regiment, calling it a "very, very, very brave group of men." The U.D.R. has been accused of leaking names of I.R.A. suspects to Protestant assassins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Day the Music Died | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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