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...White Shark, each tournament is an opportunity to recapture the "indescribable feeling" of walking the last few holes while in contention to win. It is then that the crowd seems to recede as Norman's concentration grows and he falls into that state of tunnel vision the pros call "owl's eyes." Pumped with adrenaline, he is usually hitting shots breathtakingly farther toward the end of a tournament. Nicklaus likens Norman to himself as a young man: a player with the confidence and skills to "overpower a golf course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golfer GREG NORMAN: Just Shy of the Top | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...only 106,000 acres remain of the 217,000 claimed by the Forest Service. In Oregon's Siskiyou, 142,000 acres remain of a claimed 433,000. Much of what was still uncut was broken into tracts too small to serve as habitats for those species -- the spotted owl, for instance -- whose presence indicates a healthy old-growth forest ecology. In some areas, the remaining old forest, that continent of trees that colonists began cutting in Virginia in the 17th century, will last only about 20 more years at present rates of logging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Lighthawk Counts the Clear-Cuts | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

Temple's lacrosse team would not be the first top-seeded Owl team to lose in an NCAA Tournament this season. Duke upset Temple and its star Mark Macon in the March NCAA Basketball Tournament in March with great defense from Blue Devil forward Billy King. Harvard will need such an effort from Dermody, Maggie Vaughan, Julia French, and the other defensive stalwarts...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Laxwomen Advance to Semis | 5/13/1988 | See Source »

...negotiation and a newly-revamped and efficient military to live in a multipolar, not a bipolar, world. Perhaps what we need now is a president who can bring intelligence and good sense to foreign policy, not a strict ideology as a "hawk" or a "dove." Dukakis would be an "owl...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Michael Dukakis | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Former Council Chairman and Owl Club member Richard S. Eisert '88 attempted to downplay the significance of the clubs' all-male rules. "There are a lot of all-female opportunities available at Harvard," he said, adding that Radcliffe offered women opportunities unavailable...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Council Votes Down Anti-Club Resolution | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

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