Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year Harvard captured its first Ivy title with a perfect 6-0 league record. The Crimson entered the NCAA tournament, proud owners of a 17-0 overall mark. After skipping past James Madison, 11-4, in the first round, Harvard lost to Maryland, 5-3, in the semifinals, and Temple, 8-6, in the consolation game...
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...perfect warm-up for tomorrow's contest against Dartmouth for sole possession of the Ivy League title...
Sullivan's motto is a peculiarly apt phrase with which to discuss Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Tale. Set in the city of the Golden Gate Bridges--one of America's postcard-perfect suspension bridges--Kingston's work balances characters and cliches in a startling manner...
...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...