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...also should have realized that the midpoint of my college experience was fast approaching. Last month, in order to secure a room for junior year, I participated in my first Leverett housing lottery extravaganza. (And my second...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Bring Back My Blankie | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

...stops-out rocker that dares to be a little goofy, that cuts the listener a little welcome slack. Even here, though, Snow is laughing at the expense of a mangled heart. The women Snow sings about put themselves at perpetual high risk. I'm Your Girl, the record's midpoint and one of its high points, sounds at first like another improbably beguiling Snow song about love gone bad. I'm Your Girl is a love song, all right, but it is about Snow's mother Lili, who died of cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing In the Crying Towel | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

After halftime, Harvard turned up the volume on its game radio, while the Redmen changed channels to the easy-listening station. The 3-3 deadlock at the game's midpoint quickly became 4-3,5-3,6-3, etc., in favor of Harvard (6-1 overall...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Laxmen Down St. John's, 9-3 | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

...varsity race, Brown snuck to an early advantage, and held it until the midpoint of the race. Then the Harvard craft took charge, creeping past the Bruin boat and into the lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Heavies Hound Brown | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

That settled, to everyone's relief, athletes and onlookers conserved stamina for another 24 hours and tried again. Next morning the weather was benign. Only the racecourse was horrific: at the top an icy centrifuge of steep, high- speed turns, and past the midpoint, where racers still on their skis carried speeds of 80 m.p.h., a snaky, relatively flat descent over jarring, artificially created bumps and depressions. Luxembourg's two-time World Cup champion Marc Girardelli said that Mount Allan's downhill was the "most difficult in the world," worse than Kitzbuhel's thunderous Hahnenkamm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downhill Skiing: Three, Two, One . . . Airborne! | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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