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...Janfaza's play] is a pleasant surprise," senior defenseman Don Sweeney says. "I don't think there's a player in the world who thought he'd score 13 goals this year. He has been one of the elder players who's really come out hard...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Long Shot Comes Through | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

Dunster House diners seemed favorably amused by his exhibition. "It was cool," commented Jay Reingold '89. "Chickwiches are my favorite meal anyway, and the harpsichord music was pleasant. There were none of the usual awkward pauses in lunchtime conversation; Igor was always there. And we loved his hair...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Eager Igor | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...Tremont Avenue in the Bronx, athletes in Calgary's Olympic Village will be tumbling out of bed for another day of fun, games and potential glory. Muniz is no stranger to that daily ritual. As one-half of Puerto Rico's two-member luge team, the fire fighter spent pleasant evenings last week playing free video games with the boys and girls of winter and precarious days sliding down the refrigerated luge track on his back at speeds pushing 70 m.p.h. "People were looking down at me, waving and ringing cowbells," he says with wonder. "At the finish they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: The Jests of the Rest | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Color us both crimson after your February 9 article concerning a recent University survey on SAT preparation. Imagine my dismay, in the wake of a lengthy but pleasant phone call from one of your reporters, to find our 15-minute discussion reduced to the one-liner with which I ended the interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting In, According to Stanley | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

...invading Britain to teach her majesty's civil servants to be more civil. California's Sterling Consulting Group has been hired to give 900 employees of the government's Export Credits Guarantee Department lessons on how to be nice to their customers by using, among other things, a pleasant tone of voice and careful choice of words. "We don't give smile training, or teach people how to say 'Have a nice day!' " says Consultant Karen Dunn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Have a Nice Day, Luv | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

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