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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard dominated in the offensive end of the field with 15 corner shots. Crimson sophomore goalie Lisa Yadao saw little action at her end of the field. Yale managed only 7 shots on Yadao the entire game...

Author: By Martha C. Abbruzzese, | Title: Stickwomen Win Ivy Opener | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Michelangelo's David in extra large, where employees are costumed as giant diamonds or Roman vestals in mini-togas. Amid all this, the ritual extraction of money produces shrieks, groans and -- sometimes -- incongruously grim determination. On his first night as a $25,000-a-year dealer, Larry Brown saw a gambler suffer a stroke. "What really shocked me is how the players reacted, how they continued making their bets, reaching over him and stuff," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

What gave him that idea was Kafka's Amerika. "I was thinking about how he and Brecht and others saw America. Obviously, they got their ideas from the movies, the Keystone Kops, Chaplin. You think of these guys sitting in poky little movie houses in Central Europe in the 1920s watching these flickering images. As far as they were concerned, everything in America was all in the same place. You rode down Fifth Avenue straight into Monument Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ferocious Parable | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...crop of hopefuls cut from the same professional cloth is lining up to challenge Washington's Marion Barry, who has been weakened by continuing allegations of drug abuse. Barry's dilemma worsened last week when a grand jury heard testimony from a witness who said she saw the mayor in a Virgin Islands hotel room last year with convicted drug dealer Charles Lewis and a quantity of cocaine. If Barry is forced to resign or decides not to run for a fourth term next year, Jesse Jackson may enter the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope, Not Fear | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

MOST of all, there's Valvano, professor of "the Art of the Big Con 101." A liar, a cheat, a turncoat, a PR mastermind--this is not the funny loudmouth we saw on CBS looking for someone to hug after winning the NCAA championship...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Scandals Off the Court With Jim Valvano's N.C. State | 9/23/1989 | See Source »

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