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Phillips, a three-year letterman at wide receiver in football and a four-year starter in basketball, says he will not attempt to follow in Bo Jackson's footsteps. If he makes it at either sport, the other will become a hobby at the playground, not professional, level...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Gridders Wait for the Pro Call | 4/21/1989 | See Source »

This war of words, which takes up most of the play, proves a Freudian playground, as Julie and Jean reveal the deep-seated psychological reason behind the simultaneous attraction and loathing each feels for the other. But Miss Julie is more than just a battle of the sexes. The play is also a condemnation of an aristocracy so decadent that its hypocrisy has infected the servant class as well. It has been argued that Strindberg is a misogynist who places too much of the blame on Julie and punishes her too harshly. But Jean proves to be just as manipulative...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Guns of August | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...meeting, John M. Clancy of the Boston architectural firm Goody, Clancy and Associates described the plans for two six-story structures to be built on the lot. He said the red brick buildings will contain a day care center and playground for 60 children and a one-story underground garage with 82 spaces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Paid Over $3M For Church Parking Lot | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...Final Four became his playground. In Harvard's 6-3 win over Michigan State Thursday, Krayer netted a pair of goals and an assist. Saturday he tallied only once...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Sharing the Crimson Spotlight | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...political anachronism, is in its rigid ideological belief that any restriction on the private ownership of any kind of hand-held gun leads inexorably to total abolition of all gun ownership -- that, if today the U.S. Government takes the Kalashnikov from the hands of the maniac on the school playground, it will be coming for my Winchester pump tomorrow. There is no evidence for this absurd belief, but it remains an article of faith. And it does so because the faith is bad faith: the stand the N.R.A. takes is only nominally on behalf of recreational hunters. The people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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