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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unofficially, Joslin netted a beauty in the third period. The only person that missed it was the referee, according to Harvard Coach John Dooley...

Author: By Caroline Miller, | Title: Icewomen Tackle Yale, 3-0 | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...question should be in people's minds, `How come a person in so many respects mediocre rises to such distinguished positions?'" Engel said. "He wasn't a great teacher, he wasn't a great administrator, he wasn't a great scholar. What more do you ask for in a [hospital director...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Professor Questions Frazier's Scholarship | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

MCELROY writes in a first-person stream of consciousness that draws in the reader, seeming to replicate the confused and wandering form that a child's thoughts might plausibly take after a parent's death. At times the style grows annnoyingly Salinger-esque, and is peppered with italics and occasional self-conscious introspection: "And I said, `My father passed away last night.' I who of all people know enough to say 'died': yet said `passed away."' But for the most part the flow of free association is effective...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Coping With Death, Possessing a Life | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

...addition, these experts said that the relevant legal codes in the virus investigation are an untested agglomeration of brand-new statutes and old legislation recently given high-tech applications. They said that even if the prosecution could prove one person knowingly created the virus, it may not be able to show that making the rogue program--which jammed thousands of terminals across the country--violated federal...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: `Virus' Inquiry Hears Vital Harvard Testimony | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

...What you're trying to do is show what he intended to do," he said. "[Proving] it is a help...to be able to show that this person was knowingly initiating a virus, that he was talking about what systems he wanted to hit, his awareness of what systems it would hit...and what systems it wouldn...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: `Virus' Inquiry Hears Vital Harvard Testimony | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

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