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...start last year, only to fall apart late in the season with a loss to lowly Dartmouth and an 11-0 shellacking at the hands of Harvard the next night. RPI went on to finish fourth in the ECAC and quickly bowed out of the playoffs. The Engineers still possess some talent, but will be hard pressed to improve on their '86 finish. Gone are scorers John Carter and Mark Jooris, as well a All-American defenseman Mike Dark. Leading the Engineers this year will be Neil Hernberg (41) and Terry Butryn (38). With a 1-1-1 record...

Author: By Neil Mooney, | Title: Viewing the ECAC | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

...irony is overwhelming. Those who bothered to fill out the forms and go through the proper channels face deportation and must wait years before they can legally immigrate, while those who ignored the proper channels and stayed in the U.S. illegally will soon possess green cards. However, the irony is entirely a manufactured one, created and played...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: An Immigration Disservice | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...important to have faith in the masses of people who use language every day and to respect the special expertise that they possess as speakers of English. Corey Miller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Here is a movie betrayed by its own central image: South America's Iguazu Falls. Beautiful and powerful, the falls possess both an awesome mystery and an epic grandeur that only a great film could hope to duplicate. The Mission, a collaboration between the director of The Killing Fields and the writer of A Man for All Seasons (among other big machines), is not nearly up to the challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Up the Creek the Mission | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...unusual self-defense role also gives him a chance to come across as an unsinister personality to jurors. Persico's strategy, says one court veteran, "is brilliant, if it works." But he runs a risk: his questions must not convey knowledge of events that an innocent person would not possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Mafia | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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