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...Then again, you could go to the French and pick up a couple of their old Mirages. You'd save major bucks. Or you could go to Israel or South Africa and pick up a Kfir or a Cheetah, which are basically knock-offs of the same thing...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: A Shot in the Stark | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

Before entering, it is useful to poke about -- that is if it is in a season when the wind doesn't knock you flat. The wind is nearly always remarkable west of the Mississippi, but each time it forces an occasional visitor into the posture of a boomerang, leaning as far forward as possible in order to gain ground, feels like the end of the world. In any event, the wind doesn't "sing" through the Aleppo pines in these parts so much as it tries to uproot them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Books on a Ranch | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...education and facilities that Harvard today provides them. Why should we, the women of Harvard-Radcliffe, shove aside the women's college as if it represented a sordid past? Radcliffe has always provided the finest education and services, and still does. Granted, every woman at Harvard does not knock herself out to take advantage of all Radcliffe has to offer, but if she wants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering Radcliffe | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

...Palandjian brothers teamed up for the first time all season to knock off Cruz and John Fasullo, 6-3, 6-3, in first doubles...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netmen Drop a Big Red Bomb | 5/2/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson staged a comeback in the bottom of the fourth. After Mary Baldauf and Lisa Rowning both reached base, Sharon Hayes singled to left to drive in Baldauf. Trisha Brown followed with another single to knock in Rowning, but these were the only runs the Crimson would score...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Bentley Gives Two Shiners to Batswomen | 4/22/1987 | See Source »

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