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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle of the race, his boat surged. Parker's face was as placid as a lake on a calm spring...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crowds, Crew, Cookouts and Victory | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Northeastern's heavyweight boat, the top seed, finished a disappointing fifth yesterday. But what N.U. lacked in crew prowess, it made up for in musical magic. Let me introduce the Northeastern pep band, which set up shop on the sandy shores of Lake Quinsigamond yesterday...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crowds, Crew, Cookouts and Victory | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...grew up Jewish in Salt Lake City, a very conservative Mormon place, in an apartment building full of Holocaust survivors. It was very painful to be different and not understand why. I heard things as a kid that were horrifying. I thought the world was like that. It was also the blacklisting time, full of anti-Semitism. The only positive images of people like me were the comedians on Ed Sullivan. That show was the lifeline to the Jewish people, maybe even more important than Israel. It gave a positive, warped view of what it was like to be Jewish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSEANNE BARR: Slightly To The Left Of Normal | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...South African town of Boksburg (pop. 106,000). Ever since rightists took over the town's city council last year, they have been strictly enforcing the whites-only laws that had fallen into disuse. They began by barring blacks from all municipal facilities, including the local park and lake. The obsession with racist regulations took on surreal dimensions last week when the council voted 10 to 7 to grant the transfer of a lease for the Golden Lake Chinese restaurant from W.G. Ho to another Chinese woman, S.Y. Yip. The only catch: a provision in the new lease that barred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Food for Thought | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...district. As a result, commercial sales are down 40% to 70%, but the council has refused to budge, ! despite pleas by the Boksburg Chamber of Commerce to reconsider. The Conservatives did make one small concession to common sense: they will allow Yip's children to eat at the Golden Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Food for Thought | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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