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During the 1980's, the United States has had its moments at the Winter Olympics. Few will forget speedskater Eric Heiden's five gold medals at the 1980 Games at Lake Placid, N.Y. Or when Bill Johnson, the typical ski bum, conquered the mountains at the 1984 Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia...
...course, there was the "Miracle on Ice," when the United States hockey stunned the world and captured the gold over the Russians at Lake Placid...
...intercollegiate hockey program in the nation, continually produces some of the best players on the U.S. Olympic hockey team. Harvard has been well represented on the Olympic ice since 1932. when John Chase '28, and John Garrison, '31, coached by Alfred Winsor '02, took the silver medal at Lake Placid...
...ugly mini- mall, Morris revolted. "My life has become an endurance test," he moans. He is now a zealous activist in the biggest grass-roots political movement to hit California since the property tax revolt a decade ago. A new battle cry -- Slow Growth -- is erupting from once placid neighborhoods plagued with congested streets and schools. Fed up with sprawling condos, office towers and mini-shopping centers plunked down among single-family houses, residents are demanding limits on unbridled real estate development. The state may never be the same...
...conventional Democratic contenders in Iowa -- Simon, Dukakis, Gephardt and Babbitt -- have been stuck on a treadmill devoid of any themes that arouse half the curiosity of Gary Hart's dramatic return from exile. Simon seems the beneficiary of this placid status quo, while Dukakis just drifts, perhaps from New-Hampshire-is-next overconfidence. But Babbitt and Gephardt, in different ways, have at last seized on what they believe is a cutting issue in Iowa: populism...