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Players of the Week:Offense: Ciavaglia. Friday, the junior center opened the scoring with a swift shot by ace Colgate goaltender Dave Gagnon, then fooled the Red Raiders with a last-second sucker play that gave Weisbrod a goal and the Crimson a 2-0 lead...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: "Yes Virginia, There is a Hockey Team" | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

Drury, who proved for the third-straight game that he is a force to be contended with, made OT seem almost imminent with his smooth stickhandling and swift flick past Dave Gagnon (40 saves...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Icemen Get Raided by Colgate | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

Gorbachev addressed Pope John Paul II as "your Holiness" during their meeting. He said people "have a right to satisfy their spiritual needs," and pledged swift adoption of a new religious law guaranteeing freedom of worship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superpower Summit To Begin in Malta | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

...departure leaves in power only Nicolae Ceausescu in Rumania and Milos Jakes in Czechoslovakia, both old-style Communist dictators. Their fate? Who knows? Only a few weeks ago, East Germany seemed one of the most stolidly Stalinist of all Moscow's allies and the one least likely to undergo swift, dramatic change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Freedom! The Berlin Wall | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Crack, a smokable form of cocaine, is a drug that might have been designed for use on the job. It is easy to conceal, since it burns with virtually no odor, and the gratification is swift: an intense, almost sexual euphoria that lasts only about five minutes and is not accompanied by such telltale side effects as alcohol's slurred speech and heroin's drowsiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Plague Without Boundaries | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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