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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Responding, chairman Offutt says the student government may need to take out liability insurance for the Raft Race because of the injuries that could occur if participants grew too rowdy. What began as the Adams House Ratt Race was changed to the Harvard Adams House Ratt Race when the council took over and was changed to the Harvard-Radcliffe Adams House Raft Race because the exclusion of Radcliffe offended Lakhdhir, who thought Radcliffe should be an integral part of the race. Council members revelled in the pronunciation of HRAH as "hurrah" in referring to the annual rite of spring along...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: As Time Goes By | 3/14/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps the most serious confrontation at Cornell's home hockey loss to Harvard earlier this season did not occur on the ice, but in the stands...

Author: By W. ROBERT Genieser, | Title: Fan Violence Sparks Cornell Report | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

...narrative continues to suffer unexplained breakdowns, lapsing into semi-poetic word association, noises, and archaic spelling. These breakdowns jar all the more powerfully as they occur within passages of complete textual self-control. They undermine the text's tacit claim of logic leaving a wasteland devoid of any structure, any shelter...

Author: By Thomas A. Christenfeld, | Title: Ivan the Terrifying | 3/1/1986 | See Source »

...deal of heated discussion and some heavy lobbying by Pappi (who will be on his way to debtor's prison if he doesn't manage to get his hands on Mammi's inheritance), Mammi finally agrees to contact a dating service and work on procuring a mate. Various calamities occur, accusations of heterosexaulity are thrown back and forth and the movie goes on its merry...

Author: By Mac LA Follette, | Title: La Cage Aux Folles Meets The Bride | 2/28/1986 | See Source »

Researchers know very little about cluster suicides. Some may be merely coincidences; others may be self-dramatizing efforts to capture the same outpouring of sympathy that surrounded an earlier death. According to Dr. Mark Rosenberg of Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, clusters probably occur "much more frequently than we find out about." Suicides generally tend to be underreported, he notes, in part because of concern about stigmatizing the deceased. Nonetheless, suicide is the third leading cause of death in - adolescents and young adults. In the 15-to-19-year age group, the suicide rate has almost tripled since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Could Suicide Be Contagious? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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