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John Tolmie tallied a fifth singles win against Ivan "The Terrible" Brown for the fifth and final singles point to lock the match for Harvard...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Cornell, Army Prove No Match for Netmen | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

They're invading us, dollar by dollar, yen by yen, Nintendo by Nintendo. Welcome to World War III. America just won't be America anymore. We'll be owned lock, stock and barrel by Japan. Talk about internationalizing...

Author: By Betty Hung, | Title: Will Japan Buy Harvard Too? | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Mayor David Dinkins dispatched 20 fresh teams last week to check on the 179 clubs that had been ordered closed. Incredibly, city law does not let inspectors immediately lock up all such places. Dinkins asked for legislation to promptly padlock any hazardous club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil Made Him Do It | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Speciality: First Amendment Law--Clark's "lock-out" policy was loosened after a while, and police eventually agreed to let people come and go freely--so long as they travelled in pairs of two. But Clark's policy made reporting the incident rather difficult in early hours, since he ordered that no media enter the building. A Crimson reporter was already stationed inside the office. Unfortunately, he could not get out to use a telephone or speak with editors, since police would not have let him return. So the reporter was forced to communicate by scrawling notes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 4/7/1990 | See Source »

Last year President Bush pledged "every effort" to lock up the white- collar criminals who had helped cause the nation's savings and loan disaster. Indeed, with studies showing that insider misconduct has contributed to 60% to 75% of all thrift failures, the search for banking's bad guys is one of the largest criminal manhunts in U.S. history. But, like Bush's war on drugs, the war on S&Ls has completely overwhelmed prosecutors and investigators. There are more than 3,500 major criminal cases pending, yet 1,500 of them are inactive and gathering dust. Indeed, the backlog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catch Us If You Can | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

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