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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the score tied 13-all, Harvard fencing All-America Jim O'Neill was matched with Cornell's John Skowland...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Scoreboard | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

After a double-touch to start the match, O'Neill captured four of the final touches to win the match, 5-2, and to give Harvard its first Ivy win of the season, 14-13, over Cornell Saturday in Ithaca...

Author: By Jonathan E. Benjamin, | Title: Scoreboard | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Most viewers tuning in to the Winter Olympics will be limited to a vocabulary of three small o words: "ooh" for any soaring feat after which the athlete remains in an upright position, "oops" for ungainly plops onto ice or snow and "ouch" for the spectacular disasters. Couch-cozy spectators are likely to remain otherwise speechless at the subtleties of winter sports. They will not be helped by the glossolalia that accompanies the coverage of the Games, including such fascinating but baffling terms as Axels and Lutzes, telemark and super-Gs. Enlightened appreciation will also be hindered by Zen-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Beyond the O Words | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Suddenly the earnest, Howdy Doody-ish Midwesterner became an old-fashioned firebrand. He had found a voice that worked. "Dick has touched a deep-seated fear about the economic future of the nation," says Kirk O'Donnell, president of the Center for National Policy, a Democratic-oriented think tank. "This is powerful stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pilloried For Pandering | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

...request came after a group calling itself "Students for White Supremacy" posted racist flyers around the campus, said John O. Williams, president of the BSU. The flyers contained racial slurs such as "Darkies don't belong in classrooms, they belong hanging from trees...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Justice Department to Investigate Incidents of Harassment at Michigan | 2/20/1988 | See Source »

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