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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best play of the day for Perry had to be the option flick to Art McMahon for Harvard's first touchdown. Perry held the ball long enough for the defense to react towards him and then tossed it to McMahon, who skirted into the end zone--thanks to a key block by Jim Reidy...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Testing out the Rushing Theory | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

Greg Belsher, who also stole one of Scott's passes, almost had another interception earlier in the fourth quarter. But the refs whistled Columbia for illegal motion and the Crimson for holding and clipping on the same play. End result: offsetting penalties, and the down had to be played over...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Testing out the Rushing Theory | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...words of the eminently quotable Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, "Explore. Celebrate. Learn. Play...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Suck the Marrow Out | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...sorry it happened, but I can understand it. You can play games with that. But you're not supposed to be playing games with the others -- not unless you're absolutely crooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent Sam Speaks Up | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

Larry McAfee was an avid outdoorsman. Growing up in south Georgia, he loved to fish, hunt and play baseball. But all that ended in 1985, when a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Since then he has lost his zest for living. McAfee, 33, thus petitioned a Georgia court for permission to turn off the ventilator that has been keeping him alive. As the former civil engineer testified in an emotional bedside hearing last month, he woke up every morning "fearful of each new day. There is nothing I have found or can think of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Death Wish | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

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