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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reveres the old coaches like Henry Iba, Joe Lapchick and Pete Newell. When Clair Bee was 85 and blind, Long Island's great coach painstakingly scratched out a message for Knight that read: "Clair Bee and Bob Knight do not believe that repetition is gospel." Lately Knight, 46, has actually dabbled in zone defenses and, as the euphemism goes, "broadened his recruiting base." A junior-college transfer, Keith Smart, made the last two jumpers against Syracuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Basketball's Knight-Errant | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...third day of maneuvering in the Senate over HR 2, an untidy, bloated package of $87.9 billion in transportation funds, with an increase in the speed limit tacked on to attract Western legislators' support. Rhetoric aside, nobody cared what was in the bill by now, and few had even read its entire convoluted text...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Roadblock in the Capitol | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

...students will also face possible punishment for their failure to obey an officer of the University and to act "with the maturity and responsibility expected of Harvard students," the letter read...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Epps Charges Protestors For Actions at Blockade | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

...addition, approximately three of the 15 will face an additional charge of having lied to Epps when they assured him "that the Vice Consul's speech would not be disrupted," the letter read...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Epps Charges Protestors For Actions at Blockade | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

Walzer's argument that all social criticism should be akin to the textual interpretation of a book both the critic and criticized party have read is not totally convincing. If Walzer's analogy were complete, for example, we would have to write or co-author as well as read all those books we criticize. Hermeneutics, to give Walzer's interpretive model its formal title, is a fascinating philosophical strategy with a massive history in European thought. But its application to political criticism needs more analysis and justification than has yet been generated...

Author: By David Steiner, | Title: Far From Home | 4/9/1987 | See Source »

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