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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reilly and the Harvard defense, led by juniors Andrea Montalbano and Jen Gifford, kept breaking up excellent Dartmouth scoring opportunities...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Green Blanks Women Booters, 1-0 | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...Following the convention, some mistakes were made, but because the people invovled are essentially reasonable people and kept working to resolve the problems and correct the mistakes, [in] the last months or so the tensions and problems have pretty much been eliminated," Hatcher says...

Author: By Eric S. Solowey, | Title: Mayor and Jackson Adviser | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...surprises") and in 1970 dropped out of Cerritos College to hook up with the Ice Follies. It was not until a half-decade later that McFerrin "heard my subconscious tell me to sing -- the result, no doubt, of years of soul- searching and a nagging voice that kept pressing me to take risks." Now the risks have paid off handsomely, and exhaustingly. Feeling tapped out, McFerrin ended his latest concert tour on Sept. 30, and will now work from home, where he can spend more time with Debbie, his wife of 13 years, and their two sons, Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Beat Box with Four Octaves | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...then, Sheehan argues, "Vann had lost his compass." The trappings of power and his two young Vietnamese mistresses (each of whom was kept ignorant of the other for years) "satisfied him so completely that he could no longer look at ((the war)) as something separate from himself." Sheehan's conclusion is as sobering as it is powerful: Vann, like the U.S. leaders in Viet Nam he had once criticized so adroitly, was finally consumed by his own illusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Flawed Hero in a Flawed War | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...down the top dozen floors of a new 31-story condominium on Manhattan's East Side. The concrete superstructure for all 31 floors was in place in 1986 when the city found that the building violated zoning laws and ordered it cut down to size. The developer, Parkview Associates, kept working on the building and went to court, arguing that there ( had been an error in the city's zoning map. But Parkview should have noticed the error, a New York appeals court ruled in February. Decapitation of the condo could cost $9 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trim a Little Off the Top | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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