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Trailing by 15 points at the half, Smith failed to mount a second-half threat. The hosts came up short on the boards--30 rebounds to Harvard's 53--and committed 23 turnovers...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Women Cagers Smite Smithies | 12/3/1986 | See Source »

...chain of limestone hills called the Alpilles, to realize that Van Gogh changed nothing essential in the view when painting Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background in the spring of 1889. The heaving stratification of the limestone, its caverns and holes, and the turbulent profile of Mount Gaussier to the west do look exactly like that, just as the writhing strokes of his brush on the olive trunks are a direct pictorial equivalent to the real arabesques of ancient bark and wood. One might not often see a real cloud like Van Gogh's -- that strange fetal shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sanity Defense for a Genius | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Mount Holyoke senior Michele Mitchell said a University of Massachusetts student hurled a racial insult at her and shoved her away from a copier at a university library the week after the ball game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Series Touches Off Racial Clashes | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...Racism is something I've felt ever since I came up here, but it's always been latent," said the Albuquerque native. "Now white UMass men are warning Black Mount Holyoke women to stay away from the campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Series Touches Off Racial Clashes | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

Mitchell and white classmate Erin Fields organized a racism teach-in at Mount Holyoke that drew 600 students last week. The teach-in came a few days after similar discussions at Smith College in Northampton that attracted 2000 students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Series Touches Off Racial Clashes | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

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