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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of these inconveniences has daunted the women's team, however. In fact, Captain Lisa Eskow says that she was obsessed with beginning play this year--no matter what difficulties arose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Women Spikers: Ready, but Homeless | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

Felson regretted that her team did not get more shots on inexperienced Huskie goalie Lisa Boundreau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hounds Smack 24 Shots, Slide by Stickwomen, 3-0 | 9/25/1985 | See Source »

...sacrifice. Each has reason to believe that her children are being victimized by busing. Cassandra Twymon, 14, shipped into white Charlestown, cannot abide the abuse and loneliness, and her bright academic future dims. In the city's atmosphere of strife, her brother Frederick backslides into crime. Billy and Lisa McGoff become disruptive students at Charlestown High because they believe the institution will cease to exist once "TLWC"--The Last White Class--enters its senior year. Brad Diver loses his opportunity to ^ attend an unstructured, experimental elementary school when busing transforms its student body and curriculum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Experiment in Black and White Common Ground: a Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...evening, hundreds of anxious parents gathered in the school's airless auditorium. They chanted, "Two, four, six, eight, no AIDS in any grades!" and waved placards proclaiming OUR CHILDREN WANT GOOD GRADES, NOT AIDS! Local politicians stirred the pot. "This is not meant to scare you," City Councilman Joseph Lisa of Queens began, "but leading medical researchers throughout the world truly believe that this epidemic may well be the most serious epidemic in recorded medical history." Chimed in State Assemblyman Frederick Schmidt: "There is no medical authority who can say with authority that AIDS cannot be transmitted in school. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Untouchables | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Besides Young and Co-Captain Lisa Eskow, Farber will rely on juniors Jodi Cassell, Pascale Jean-Louis and Stephanie Salinas, and sophomores Kelly Abraham and Suzie Tapson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Star, er, Coach | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

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