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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South, runoff elections often guarantee that the top white candidates will get another shot at the party nomination, even if a Black captures a plurality of the vote...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: Slashing Civil Rights | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

September 29, 1987: One is a lonely number--except if you're a member of the women's soccer team. One is all the women booters get. And one is all they need. The Crimson (4-0) tops Providence, 1-0, on a Karen Pinezich shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agony, Ecstasy and Even a Few Titles | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

March 5, 1988: The men's hockey team gets past RPI in the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament with a 6-4 victory in the second game of the series. Andy Janfaza skips a shot off RPI defenseman Rob Schena's leg and into the net. A favorite expression of Harvard Coach Bill Cleary comes to mind: "I'd rather be lucky than good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Agony, Ecstasy and Even a Few Titles | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...been executed. Kauffmann, Carton and Fontaine were continually moved from apartment to apartment. At one point Kauffmann was wrapped in bandages like a mummy, sealed in a metal box and bolted under the chassis of a truck. When he banged on the side, he was told he would be shot. "Kill me," he snapped back. "It doesn't make any difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Years in the Belly of Beirut | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...chillingly familiar. More than 600 people died in 1984 when Indian forces stormed the holy shrine and wiped out extremists demanding independence for Sikhs in Punjab. Last week paramilitary troops besieged an estimated 70 Sikh terrorists who were again turning the temple into a fortress. After a Sikh gunman shot at police, Indian security forces returned fire and surrounded the complex. Weeklong gun battles left more than 30 dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Blood Of Punjab | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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