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Harvard will open the tournament at 6:30 p.m. today with a showdown against M.I.T., a team the Crimson has beaten twice already this year, including a 17-9 pasting in the Beanpot final one week...
...aquamen will try to win their third consecutive match over Boston College this year at 1:15 p.m. on Sunday before their showdown with Brown at 5:45 p.m. in a game that is expected to determine the tournament's champion. The Crimson lost to the nationally ranked Bruins, 11-7, last Sunday...
...Democratic strategy now is to link Bush and Quayle inextricably. In the final presidential debate, Dukakis will surely do his best to remind voters that a vote for Bush is a vote for Quayle. They may not turn the polls around, but after last week's showdown in Omaha, it is intended to give voters pause before they commit themselves...
...prospect of so many gymnasts performing at levels of difficulty never before witnessed in Olympic competition that promises to make the showdown in Seoul a hold-your-breath affair. With each Olympics, the sport ascends to a new plateau of audacity that would have been unthinkable four years earlier. And four years from now, even those moves may seem out of the dark ages. So too will the sweethearts of Seoul. When Olga Korbut tried to repeat her Munich triumphs in 1976, she was upstaged by Newcomer Nadia Comaneci. When Nadia tried to re-create her glory in 1980, audiences...
...assert a kind of athletic kingship. -- Swimmers Biondi and Janet Evans have appointments in Korea with a hoard of medals -- the question being just how many. -- For a swarm of mitey gymnasts, the contest beyond gold seems to be for the affection of the globe. -- The first superpower showdown in twelve years. -- A look into the heart of Seoul. -- And finally, for the overwhelmed viewer, a selective TV guide...