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...Ithacans will look to high-scoring freshman guard John Bajusz, almost a shoo-in for Ivy Rookie of the Year honors, to lead the league's worst offense. Cornell is averaging 52 measly points per game, 17.7 less than league-leading Harvard...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: It's the Biggest Weekend Of the Year | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hamilton Takes Gold at Winter Games | 2/17/1984 | See Source »

...male colleagues in government. Convinced that Uchtenhagen was well qualified for the job, the Social Democratic Party nominated her to fill a vacancy left when one of the two Social Democrats on the Federal Council resigned. Under the unwritten rules of the magic formula, Uchtenhagen should have been a shoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: Ladies Last | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...Americans in Yugoslavia, Hamilton, 25, is closest to a shoo-in for a gold medal. He finished fifth at Lake Placid in 1980, but since September of that year, he has won all his competitions, including four U.S. and three world championships. For all his easy-looking successes, Hamilton has had the inevitable emotional kinks to straighten out. "You have all these idealistic values about what a champion should be," he says, "and suddenly you're thrust into living up to it. I felt I could never let down. I drove myself crazy. I was terrible to myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This One Figures To Be on Ice: Scott Hamilton | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...double standard concerning Soviet actions), it immediately apologized and offered compensation to the relatives of the victims. This was the civilized thing to do. When Aeroflot and other Eastern Bloc civilian airliners fly over restricted American airspace in order to test our response time, we scramble fighters and shoo them away, but we do not even consider shooting them down, for this is so outside the scope of international law and of our own morality that it would never become an issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KAL 007 | 9/30/1983 | See Source »

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