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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most of it is mental discipline," Armstrong said, explaining the secret to Harvard's penalty killing success. "You have to stay where you should be and keep a tight box. When you deviate from that system, that's when you're going to get stung...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Paying the Mortgage on a Second Home | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...reasons that both Olympics and elections have achieved such enormous cultural success is that they have been synchronized with a galactic quirk which dictates that every four years there must be an extra day in the calendar. These extra-long years, called leap years, are perfect for cramming in one whole extra day of commercials onto the bandwagon of monster events. Furthermore, by staging the Olympics in the same year as Presidential elections, each feeds on the hysteria generated by the other until the American public is convinced that something important is actually happening...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: That Four-Year Itch | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the show tells the story of Jean Valjean (William Solo, who understudied the role on Broadway). Paroled in 1815, Valjean realizes he must break parole if he is to have any success in the outside world...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Les Magnifiques | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

Glannon said he searched frantically for the packet and had no success. The student who had claimed to be the University's benefactor then laughed, and apologized for inconveniencing Glannon, the proctor said...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Harvard Hazards: Red Dots, Green Dots... | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...women cope with these conflicts? Chicago's Frenkel believes professional women must stop taking another woman's success as a personal affront. "They have to separate out business from personal issues," she says. For some women, that's impossible, as Laura Srebnik, 33, a Manhattan computer educator, discovered when she suddenly found herself supervising a "dear friend" at a political lobbying group. The friend, she says, became hostile, talked about her behind her back and then quit. The parting explanation, says Srebnik, was "that I had become one of 'them' " -- the power structure. For some women in the workplace, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: When Women Vie with Women | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

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