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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schools now return wence they came; Duke (18-2) to the rough and-tumble Atlantic Coast Conference, whichcurrently places three teams in the national topfive, and Harvard (now 4-11 overall) to thesheltered courts of the Ivy League--far away fromplayers like Johnny Dawkins...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Blue Devils Crunch Cagers, 89-52, in N.C. | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

...very rough handle on this contest, consider a common opponents chain. In the middle of December, the Crimson fell to Manhattan College, 81-69. Several weeks later, North Carolina embarrassed Manhattan, 129-45, in one of the worst defeats in NCAA history. And last weekend, the Tar Heels squeaked by Duke at home...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Cagers Headed for One Devil of a Time | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...past decade, she and her husband lived in exile in Boston from 1980 to 1983. Few believe that the President would challenge Aquino's candidacy on such a sensitive point. On the other hand, a politician as resourceful as Marcos might try almost anything if the going gets rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Getting Their Acts Together | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...shapes, materials and images that resulted are currently on display in an exhibition at New York City's Whitney Museum, "High Styles: Twentieth-Century American Design." The show, which includes 300 pieces of furniture, craftworks, tableware and household appliances, was assembled by six different curators and seems more the rough outline of a museum exhibit than a finished show. Indeed, in a gallery that is like the vast attic of some anonymous and impossibly trendy old American family--interesting, to be sure, but incoherent--the recurrent evocation of the future is one of the few themes reaffirmed by the eclectic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...rough paraphrasing of the paper topic might run as follows: "Is it more just to protect 'freedom of expression' for pornographers, or to legislate limits on pornography and thereby reduce the supposedly related ills of teenage pregnancy, rape, child molestation, etc.?" Sadly, the grapevine indicates that students responded to the question with knee-jerk proclamations defending the sanctity of 'freedom of expression...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Doing 'Justice' an Injustice | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

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