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...felt like I cheated [Coach] Ishan [Gurdal]. He worked with me for two years and then I went and got hurt on him," says Doyle. "I lost control in volleyball junior year--and I regret doing it because it's the only time I've ever quit. I think that's why I stayed at Harvard--I couldn't quit...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: The California Kid | 6/6/1985 | See Source »

...enough to stumble on History and Literature. It was there that I found the 17th century, that yeasty and tumultuous period with more than a superficial resemblance to our own times. Times B. Conant '14 succeeded A. Lawrence Lowell as Harvard's President in our junior year, but I regret to say most of us didn't notice the difference. Our lives and digestions were probably more affected by the repeal of Prohibition at approximately the same time...

Author: By Francis H. Burr, | Title: Depression, Prohibition, and a Different World | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...bomb in the students' cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Perhaps the best known was Kozo Okamoto, 37, a pro-Palestinian Japanese terrorist who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in an airport massacre of 26 people in Israel in 1972. The Japanese government formally expressed regret over Israel's decision to release Okamoto and said it would attempt to bring him back to Japan to stand trial on murder charges. But Okamoto, like many of the others released this week, was flown directly from Geneva to Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Fallout of an Ugly War | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Sussman admits that he did not fully understand the importance of the House system to life at Harvard, but says that it did not at all cause him to regret his decision to transfer...

Author: By Nina E. Sonenberg, | Title: The Undergraduate Under class? | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...hints of Sandinista military changes came as U.S. Democratic Congressmen were showing signs of regret for their decision three weeks ago to refuse $14 million to the contras this year, even when the money was labeled humanitarian relief. The biggest factor in changing congressional minds was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra's tete-a-tete in Moscow on April 29 with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Ortega continued his 13-day trip through the East bloc last week, meeting, among others, Polish Prime Minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Tantalizing Hints | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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