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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be wrong, though, to attribute our longing to escape to modern ills alone. In the late sixteenth century, Montaigne wrote: "The evil means men use in our day to push themselves show clearly that the end is not worth much. Let us reply to ambition that it is she herself that gives us a taste for solitude. For what does she shun so much as society? What does she seek so much as elbowroom...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Back Again | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

...push it down the court and go to the basket in that situation," Webster said of his personal scoring explosion. "If they weren't going to stop me, I was going all the way to the basket...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crusaders Persevere Over Hoopsters, 78-70 | 12/5/1985 | See Source »

...those who never played under McLaughlin--the freshmen--Roby is equally appreciated. "He's great because he'll push you to your potential, but he'll also pat you on the back when you've done something right," says rookie forward Fred Schernecker...

Author: By Jessica Dorman and Jonathan Putnam, S | Title: 1985-86 Harvard Men's Basketball | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

Another important source of the increased altruism is the media attention devoted to the famine throughout Africa. "Famine is always there but you can't sustain the coverage. But I think the Ethipia crises gave a push for us," says Troy A. Davis '87, treasurer of Cyclists Fighting Hunger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taking a Step Into the Community | 11/21/1985 | See Source »

...display fundamental ignorance of the issues at hand. To begin with, the Crimson writers can not seem to distinguish between the national security policies and the human rights policies of the U.S. government. We have thousands of warheads pointed at the Soviet Union to defend ourselves, not to push for the release of Andrei Sakharov. Our adversarial relationship with the Soviets is not due to the mere existence of the Gulag Archipelago, but rather to their efforts to extend it beyond Soviet borders. To suggest that South Africa should be our enemy because of apartheid ignores the fact that, unlike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tasteless And Ignorant | 11/21/1985 | See Source »

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