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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bucknell was easy. Yohe threw for another 265. Dave Bunning ran for over 100 yards. Your back-up quarterbacks--your own, peculiar, Joe Restic-style victory cigars--were warming up before the second half even started...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Joe Restic's Dream Season | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

...said in an interview that Bloom's book was part of a larger trend toward blaming higher education for national ills. "America has a peculiar penchant--when people are troubled by the way society is going, they blame education," he said...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Bok Calls Bloom Bestseller 'Mean-Spirited' | 10/7/1987 | See Source »

...peculiar timing of the barrage of Biden brickbats accidental? The Des Moines Register reported that an unidentified campaign had circulated an "attack video" linking Kinnock's and Biden's rhetoric. A reporter for a Florida legal newspaper, the Miami Review, was also tipped off last week about the law school plagiarism incident and alerted a sister publication, Washington's Legal Times. In trying to confirm the information, reporters for the paper talked to a variety of Washington political insiders, including an adviser to the Richard Gephardt campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Familiar Quotations | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...COURSE fills an important gap in the Department's offerings--particularly for concentrators. The peculiar policy of forbidding concentrators from studying both American and modern European history at the same time leaves a major portion of Western civilization a mystery to many concentrators. The introduction of a survey to Western Civilization provides a much-needed corrective...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: A New Course in History | 9/23/1987 | See Source »

There is a peculiar kind of code collegians invariably follow when in the Capitol. It's immediately obvious when you are introduced to a fellow intern. In the interest of brevity, you don't ask names. You don't ask colleges. You don't even ask what they're doing this summer. You ask simply: "Rayburn, Hart, or Cannon...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Washington: Hours from Any Beach | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

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