Word: press
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale senior Mike Ryan had difficulty all night inbounding the ball against Harvard's full-court press. Three five-second violations and several Harvard steals out of the press added to the Elis' woes...
...council should also press for an overhaul of the Harvard academic advising system, which surveys have shown to be grossly inadequate. It should also search for ways to resurrect the original role of the residential houses as intellectual communities...
December 1987: The press reports that the U.S. has evidence that Libya is building a chemical-warfare weapons facility...
THIS BOY'S LIFE by Tobias Wolff (Atlantic Monthly Press; $18.95). A vivid memoir of a bizarre upbringing, dwelling not on hardships but on the promise of awakening every morning in a vast land where people are prepared to forget the past and believe anything...
...Public: Needs of the Bereaved." Sponsored by the Foundation of Thanatology, a New York City-based organization devoted to studying bereavement, as well as the Dallas Morning News and the Milwaukee Journal, the three-day symposium covered everything from obituaries to the role of "Media as Murderer." "The press has been covering crime and death for centuries," says Texas Christian University journalism professor Tommy Thomason, "but we are just beginning to think about how we cover...