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...important also to remember how hard it is for a team to repeat. Being champion means everybody saves their best pitcher to knock you off--so get ready to see a Lockenmayer or Darling just about every day. It means you have to be up for each game, because in this league, in an ordinary year, four losses means death...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Harvard Baseball: Can A Young Team Repeat? | 4/3/1981 | See Source »

When he answered a knock on his door at 8:30 p.m., a stranger asked directions then shot him twice in the head. Two suspects have been arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Week's Murder Victims | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...Instant Karma line with 15 goals and 14 assists, including six power play goals and five two-goal games. The very surprising defensive contributions of junior Alan Litchfield, who had the most consistent season of anyone on the blueline, and walk-on freshman Ken Code, whose dive-and-knock-the-puck-away style continually foiled the opposition's scoring chances...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Some Good News and Some Bad News | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

...squads. El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, a private organization, estimates that two-thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged, "Don't shoot Mama!" Miranda was killed in a hail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: What Will We Have Left? | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...most outstanding swim of the night for the Crimson came from sophomore Maureen Gildea. Swimming as the twelfth seed in the 500-yd. freestyle, Gildea overpowered the consolation heat, to knock eight seconds off her time and finish with the seventh fastest time...

Author: By Caroliner R. Adams, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Aquawomen Hold 3rd at Ivies | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

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