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Harvard's Vince Marin stepped up to the occasion by booming a spike at the feet of a Dartmouth player, giving Harvard a 14-11 lead. Then the sophomore outside hitter served...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: Spikers Swing By Big Green in Four Games | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Today's news, it is often said, is used to wrap tomorrow's garbage. But here is a tale with a different twist: an article that long ago ended up on the spike now makes a sidebar to the biggest story of our time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Case of the Shy Bulgarian | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Harvard lost the next point on a long spike by Jones...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: Elis, Engineers Rain On M. Spikers' Parade | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...Spike Lee knew just the right thing. While shooting his racially charged movie Do the Right Thing last year, the director realized how crucial it was to find appropriate music for the song that ignites the film's climactic riot scene. "I wanted it to be defiant, I wanted it to be angry, I wanted it to be very rhythmic," says Lee. "I thought right away of Public Enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yo! Rap Gets on the Map | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...Word, Spike. Few groups pulsate with more in-your-face aggression than the four young black men known as Public Enemy, rap music's self-proclaimed "prophets of rage." For the sound track, they concocted Fight the Power, a swaggering mixture of combustive rhythms and rebellious rhymes ("Got to give us what we want/ Got to give us what we need/ Our freedom of speech is freedom or death/ We got to fight the powers that be"). The song not only whipped the movie to a fiery pitch but sold nearly 500,000 singles and became an anthem for millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yo! Rap Gets on the Map | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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