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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While others talk about the Ivy League cellar as they page through the latest issue of Penthouse, America's premier "sports" magazine, I have let my gut feeling do the talking instead of my head. Besides, I'd do the same thing if I were answering final exam question, right? Why should picking football games be any different...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Anything Can Happen: Harvard Goes All the Way in '89 | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

However, acquaintences of the 20-year-old dissident say that study will not be the only thing on his mind. Since fleeing China last June in the wake of the government crackdown on protesters, Wuer Kaixi has pledged to carry on the fight for democracy from abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...As Leading Student Dissident Enrolls After Escape from China | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

Imitation or the Real Thing...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Change Is a Certainty in a Wide Open Race | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...lucky thing is that a goalkeeper can play a lot longer. I think now I'm finally playing like a really good goaltender--not just jumping, catching balls, the athletic part of it, but playing smart. I don't make the same mistakes, I don't get rattled...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Reaching for the World--Cup, That Is | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...most extraordinary thing was that the Germans did not machine-gun the thousands of men on the beach. The Stukas did attack the boats, and I remember one in particular, a paddleboat that had been bombed and caught fire. There were maybe 100 to 200 men grouped in the back of the boat because the front < was in flames. But the wind kept whipping the fire back on them, and the men were crying. It was a kind of moan, but a collective moan, an inhuman moan. I tried to drag a man out of the water and up onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance . . . It Was Awful | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

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