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Much of the 24 point victory margin can be explained with a quick look at shooting percentages. While Princeton shooters--most notably Steve Mills and Craig Robinson--sizzled the twines at a 29-47, 61.7 per cent clip, the Crimson took as many shots (48), but hit only a pitiful...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Princeton Tigers Embarrass Hoopsters | 2/17/1981 | See Source »

Imagine the contempt and derision with which this was received in Langdell, Baker, Littauer, William James and the Computer Center. With all the important skills necessary to manipulate a great university, the godstruck old fool had cited something as intangible as a belief. For it was not only Pusey's...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: For a Firm Foundation | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

A more pitiful existence than that lived by John Merrick, the Elephant Man, could not be imagined. Born with a deteriorating disease that infected his body with gruesome deformities, he was treated by Victorian England first as a freak show amusement and then as a society oddity. His story is...

Author: By Jacoba Atlas, | Title: The Elephant Man | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

Private Benjamin pretends to be about feminine consciousness and identity, about a woman "finding herself" in a man's world, but its silliness and simplicity insults all feminists, male and female. Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) is an airhead. A Jewish American Princess, she's not funny and she's not...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Mrs. Grunt | 10/18/1980 | See Source »

Training camp hints that Brown was not all forecasters had built it up to be, and similar preseason fears that Yale coach Carm Cozza once again had assembled a powerful side, were borne out. Brown fumbled ten--count 'em, ten--times, and rushed for a pitiful 55 yards, with sensation...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Yale, Dartmouth Romp in Openers; Cornell Trudges Past Princeton, 17-7 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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