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Northwestern's Wildcats, outright Big Ten football champs as recently as 1936, were torn last week over what to do: "Stop State at 28" or go for the record. Should Northwestern, beaten in 28 straight games since September 1979, establish an alltime major college losing streak Saturday, or beat Michigan State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Interstate 94, Northwestern 0 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Given the cost of colds, as well as the outright danger they represent when they attack somebody who is otherwise seriously ailing, the search for a way to prevent them must go on. But everybody should be forewarned that if the search ever succeeds the cold will be missed in more ways than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Secret Life of the Common Cold | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...year, an output which equals Sue St. Louis's record set in the 14-game 1978 season. With at least two games remaining in the booters' season, Landry, who now holds the total points record (20 goals, 7 assists, 27 points), is sure to claim the goals record outright before season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Roll Again, Trample Yale 4-1 | 11/14/1981 | See Source »

...Ophelia (Ursula Drabek), whom Cain sees not as a shrinking victim of cruelty and circumstance--the usual interpretation--but as a strong and independent woman. Creating this Ophelia takes imaginative line-reading, a good deal of un-Shakespearean byplay that never made it into a script, and some outright cheating--for instance, an extra exchange of "Ophelia!" and "NO!" as Polonius tries to force his daughter to tell the King about Hamlet's visit to her chamber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Messing With the Bard | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

...expressions on the faces of Harvard women's soccer players was fulfillment as the booters joked easily and playfully doused each other with champagne after upsetting top-seed Connecticut, 2-1, in overtime Sunday to capture their first outright Eastern Championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tournament Tested Tough | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

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