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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That message was easy to lose sight of in a year when so much happened that was treated like it meant so little. But for one brief period, people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Transitions | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...never seemed to be able to win the big game [that would earn the team a spot in the tournament]," Felsen says. "Or, we'd win one big game and we wouldn't win two big games. We'd beat Maryland, then we'd lose to UMass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highs and Lows Every Year | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...some, you lose some. Just ask Kate Felsen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highs and Lows Every Year | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...disappointing, but if we had to lose that was the way to do it," Pennoyer says. "Somebody had to lose the game. If we had played a bad game, everyone would have been let down. The goals just didn't turn out the way they should have...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: One of the Triple Towers | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...this is true, it's hard to imagine how any university's authority might be justified, or how Harvard could but lose. Yet around here, no one seems to realize what's at stake...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: The Company We Keep | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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