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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Sally Falk Moore resigned Tuesday as the master of Dunster House because she and her husband want to make time for academic work, she said yesterday...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Dunster Master Resigns to 'Live Own Life' | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

Moore distributed a letter yesterday to Dunster residents explaining that she and Co-Master D. Cresap Moore "must get on with our own work and our lives in ways which the mastership would not allow." Moore resigned as GSAS dean last year...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Dunster Master Resigns to 'Live Own Life' | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

...King, master of the metaphor, was somewhere in Las Vegas, talking about some low down on a showdown that won't slow down...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Of Tyson and Trump | 2/28/1989 | See Source »

...performance on the chess circuit, Deep Thought has won the prestigious Fredkin Intermediate Prize for Computer Chess, a $10,000 award set up for the first computer to achieve a grand-master rating. The machine, designed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, now has 2,551 points on the U.S. Chess Federation scale, making it one of the top 40 players in the U.S. and putting it within sight of world champion Gary Kasparov, who is rated at about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Chess Prodigy $10,000 prize for a rising star | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...North European television. The footage showed hunters stabbing baby and adult seals with ice picks and in some instances dragging the animals, only half dead, back to Norwegian flaying vessels. The King's comments were strong stuff, considering Norway's sensitivity to criticism from Sweden, its onetime colonial master and its archrival. Said Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson of the King, before rushing off to Norway on a fence- mending mission: "He must have been very angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandinavia: A Sovereign Plea for Seals | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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