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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...varsity eight dropped an especially close contest to Yale on the Elis' home waters of the Housatonic. The Black and White (8-2 overall, 6-1 Ivy) came up short by a three-seat length and a 1.4-second margin to fall out of first place in the Ivy League...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Bulldogs Bite Oarswomen at the Finish | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Yale made its move on Radcliffe, picking up five seats midway through the race. The heavies then moved on the Bulldogs (6:31.8) in the sprint and gained two seats on them, taking their stroke up to a 37-38 rating. But Radcliffe fell short at the finish line, crossing with a 6:33.6 time...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, | Title: Bulldogs Bite Oarswomen at the Finish | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

These, however, are short-term problems. Condensing and improving school curricula would be a long-term solution to increasingly pressing social problems. Granted, any exercise in social engineering carries with it certain risks and costs. But the alternative solutions to today's teen problems, which emphasize the inculcation of morality and responsibility, rely on abstractions that are even less subject to human control and, in any case, do not deal directly with the issues at hand...

Author: By Stephen L. Ascher, | Title: Growing Pains | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...significant that the meaning of historical events has frequently been obscured, not by the real historian but by social scientists who sought abortively to bring history into the realms of nature and thus deny the characteristically historical aspects of the human scene. In short, our culture has been intent upon equating history with nature at the precise moment when history revealed the dangerous possibilities of human freedom, which were not at all like nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Literary Remembrance | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

MICHAEL Chabon, whose short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, is following in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac and J.D. Salinger with this novel. Like Kerouac, Chabon seeks to explore the outskirts of human discontent and disillusionment. Like Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye, he writes about a certain time--in Bechstein's case, a summer--charged with uncertainty and doubt...

Author: By Mark T Brazaitas, | Title: A Novel About Pittsburgh? | 4/23/1988 | See Source »

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