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Saturday at Blodgett Pool, Greene dove in the 3-meter diving finals of the Eastern Championships. The two-time defending champion in the event, Greene had already taken the one-meter event Thursday and was the favorite to repeat...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Nothing More Than a Fluke Dive | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...backstroke, the title and Eastern record went to Gretchen Ebner of B.U. with her time of 2:03.00. Harvard's Sheila Findley posted a record time in trials, but could not repeat her performance in the finals and finished fourth. Nonetheless, her morning time of 2:03.02 qualified her for the NCAA Championships as well as the Olympic trials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquawomen Float to Eastern Swimming Crown | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...anxious and grieving Jansen on the starting line that evening. At the outset he jumped the gun. To avoid a repeat and disqualification, he held back for a crucial moment at the second gun, then bore down to make up for lost time. He went down suddenly in the first turn, clipping Japanese Skater Yasushi Kuroiwa and slamming into the sideboard. Looking back, he said that he might have been pushing too hard. It seemed as likely though that emotional pressure had made a difficult curve impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: The Fall and Rise of Dan Jansen | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...says he is willing to wait for those two institutions to complete their fundraising probes. "I have had extensive conversations with both these offices, and have told them why we found problems with their practices," says Bok. "They are alert to those problems and are unlikely to repeat them, so I don't feel that I'm working under...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Bok Set to Review Fundraisers At the 9 University Faculties | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

...recent models have suffered assaults from competing formats like Apple's versatile Macintosh. IBM's newest line of personal computers, the Personal System/2, got off to an initially promising start after its introduction last April, selling 1 million units within seven months. But IBM fears a repeat of the past when it was tripped up by nimble copycat companies that produced lower-cost knockoffs of its first line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Elephant Dance? | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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