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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACCORDING to the October 16 issue of U.S. News & World Report, Harvard-Radcliffe ranks third among national universities. This came as quite a shock to an acquaintance, a "Harvard man" if ever there was one. He's not used to being second-best in anything; third is simply anathema...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Of Jellybeans and Ivy League Rankings | 10/19/1989 | See Source »

...Third?" he bellowed. "Holy Crimson...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Of Jellybeans and Ivy League Rankings | 10/19/1989 | See Source »

...Kiely's third daughter, Christina, is now a Harvard junior, but she got an early start on her extracurricular activities at Harvard: "I was in The Beggar's Opera with my father when I was four or five," she says. She says she never got to see the end of the show because her mother always whisked her off to bed after her brief appearance on stage...

Author: By Tracy Kramer, | Title: When Home Is A House: Children of Masters | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the Vic Braden Ski College is gearing up for its third full year at Aspen's Buttermilk Mountain. Braden's critical eye was cast on skiing several years ago, after he and Melody returned from a ski trip confused by the variety of teaching systems they had encountered. Some seemed logical; others made no sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Tennis to Toads Vic Braden, Coach Extraordinaire, Uses Humor and Physics to Show Nonstars | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

These groups eschew violence but offer no explanation of what should be done about the Muslim shrines that now occupy the holy ground. They point out that animal sacrifices and other aspects of Temple worship are so ingrained in Judaism that they take up a third of the 613 biblical commandments, plus major portions of the Talmud and the daily ritual. Temple restoration is also a fixation for literal-minded Protestants, who deem a new Temple the precondition for Christ's Second Coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Time for A New Temple? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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