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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phony," that most perfect word of Holden Caufield's vocabulary. That most concise sense of Salinger's classic work. And yet phoniness, like its sibling rival, sincerity, does not find expression in some sterile post-production studio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honesty Is Occasionally a Virtue | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...rival Brown (3-0), three-time defending league champion, nabbed sixth place in the poll. No other Ivy squads made...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Women Booters Ranked Eighth | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...fast track is Li Peng, 57, considered the man most likely to succeed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. A Soviet-trained engineer and a technocrat who once headed China's nuclear-energy program, Li became one of the country's four Vice Premiers two years ago. His principal rival for the premiership is Vice Premier Tian Jiyun, 56. Tian's main credential is that he helped to run Sichuan province for ten years as deputy to Zhao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Successor Generation | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...Crimson's season opens September 13 when the squad takes on Iona. The biggest challenge, however, will be provided by arch-rival Brown, which sunk Harvard last season to maintain its 10-year unbeaten string against the Crimson...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Three-Time Winner | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...were vacationing, the Men's Varsity Crew team was off in England busy winning the world's premier rowing regatta. The Crimson took the Grand Challenge Cup at the 140th annual Henley Rowing Regatta in Henley-on-Thames with a three-and-two-thirds lengths victory over Ivy League rival Princeton in the first all-American final in 18 years. Harvard had not won the prestigious event since...

Author: By Compiled CHRISTOPHER J. georges and Thomas J. Winslow., S | Title: While You Were Away | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

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