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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clockwise from the top right, Harvard forward LANE MACDONALD soars over a UM defenseman in the Crimson's 5-2 loss. Defenseman DON SWEENEY (2) battles for the puck near the boards. MACDONALD looks to take the puck the length of the ice and score. Minnesota featured skating cheerleaders and mascot. Harvard goalie DICKIE MCEVOY (left) and SWEENEY watch as a Sioux forward knocks over...
Many have accused the press of devoting too much space to the story. Some have blamed bias, others the press's itch to sensationalize. In fact, because the story has thus far lacked Watergate's drama and turned on the accumulation of details, newspaper stories ran at such length that they came to be of interest primarily to scandal junkies. But the press was not so much overplaying the story as playing catch-up in doing its job. It took the Tower commission report to make the story big and clear again...
Others respond reluctantly. Some--the rare ones, the reporters' friends--talk at length despite the outcome. In the event of a loss, they're the ones you go to first...
...Lyricist Alain Boublil, owed little to French musical-theater tradition -- there isn't much of one -- and a lot to rock operas like Jesus Christ Superstar. In their 1980 version at the 4,000-seat Palais des Sports in Paris, the show ran little more than half its present length and consisted of a dozen tableaux vivants accompanied by incidental music during ponderous scene changes. A year later Mackintosh heard the record and found the score so inherently theatrical that he decided to produce an English-language version...
...Reagan Administration, eager to move ahead with its Strategic Defense Initiative, says yes. Last week -- at great length, his voice often cracking -- Nunn said no. The Administration's claim, he concluded, was based on a "complete and total misrepresentation" of key parts of the historical record, especially its ratification by the Senate...