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...tiny little quirk that found the Harvard men's lacrosse squad on top of Penn, 3-0, just six minutes into yesterday's game became the tiny little miracle that found the Crimson tied at five with the Quakers at half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laxmen: Close But Not Quite | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

Vermont? A landslide for Hart, admittedly, but with thousands of Republican cross-over votes. Again, New England: some kind of regional quirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charting the Big Shift | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

Hart Supporter Brian Quirk, 22, was elected caucus chairman by 86 of his Democratic neighbors gathered in the auditorium of Waterloo's red brick McKinstry Elementary School. When they arranged themselves into clusters according to candidate preference, 33 were for Mondale, 17 for Hart, eleven (five whites, six blacks) for Jackson, ten for McGovern, the rest scattered among also-rans. votes A at a caucus candidate to must have his receive 15% support of re the corded m the statewide tabulation; backers of candidates who fall below the threshold remain can formally defect to another uncommitted. contender During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going for a Knockout | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...caucus in a Des Moines school the chairwoman initially counted "35-ish for Mondale, 30-plus for McGovern" University of Northern Iowa History Professor Charles Quirk, Brian's father, thinks the inexact, homespun democracy is terrific. People criticize the caucuses as a meaningless media show," he says "But it s a civics lesson for us all. Both the politicians and the people are better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going for a Knockout | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...botanical quirk threatens the last pandas in the wild

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Battling a Bamboo Crisis | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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