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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They're a very powerful attacking team and we just weren't ready for it." Brandeis' Amy Lydell said. "Although our fencing was technically sound, we were overpowered by their agressive tactics...

Author: By Suzanne F. Nossel, | Title: Women Reign Supreme | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

...fame, leads courses more organized and elucidating than many here at Harvard. (Infact, T.M.U. is grounded in the Harvard tradition, having lifted the Harvard seal and substituted Verifast for Veritas.) Students at T.M.U. get a minute-by-minute--i.e., course by course--written outline. Each period begins with appropriate sound effects. There are snores for philosophy and ape squeels for biology. The professor gives a summary at the beginning of each class--for example, in biology, "I'm a mutant. You're mutant. We are all mutants...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: An Academia Nut | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...nine new tunes on this album and enough material left over to give Robertson a strong head start on the next one. The recording took another full year. Together with Producer ; Daniel Lanois, who worked with U2 on The Joshua Tree, Robertson came up with a silky, soaring sound that is ethereal and sporting at the same time, just what you might hear from a roadhouse located down an off ramp just south of the pearly gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Half-Breed Rides Again | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...Attorney General William French Smith. But the report points out that Smith had advised that Congress would have to be notified once arms shipments were under way. Said the report: "There is only one reason to have an attorney general on the NSC: to give the President independent and sound advice. That did not happen in the Iran affair and the President was poorly served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the Prosecutor | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...force some courageous budget decisions on Congress and the White House. With great fanfare and high expectations, a "domestic summit" was convened. President Reagan agreed to drop his reflexive opposition to any taxes. Congressional leaders made so many declarations about the need for cooperation that they began to sound almost sincere. Partisan quarrels would be set aside. Now was the time for bold action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey And Trimmings | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

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