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...opportunity to better some stars. Rivera homebred went two for two, walked twice and scored twice. The Utica N.Y. native leads the team in home runs (seven), batting average (.385), rbi's(26) hits (28) and atbats (78). With 11 games remaining, he's slightly off the pace to tic the Harvard single season the record (40) and slightly ahead of the pace to tie the school's single season horde run mark...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Batmen Walk Past URI; Rivera Slams 7th Homer | 5/2/1984 | See Source »

...caucuses to Pennsylvania's primary, each roared in and out of hundreds of towns, eating perfunctorily and exercising hardly at all. Sleep comes a few hours at a time in stuffy rooms and cramped airplane seats. The adrenaline gushes all day long. Every remark, every intellectual twitch or tic is scrutinized, recorded, analyzed. In the frenzy of political combat, the candidate must improvise crucial strategic moves, keep his facts straight and try to look presidential to boot. Senator John Glenn said he was "perpetually tired" two months before the first primary. Fellow Dropout George McGovern seemed well rested, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Fatigue Factor | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

With her eight points Boutilier brought herself within five points of setting a new single season scoring record. The senior guard now has 301 points and needs 306 to tic Elatine Holpach's mark...

Author: By John H. Tate iii, | Title: UNH Locks Out Women Cagers, 73-46 | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

...team has made a remarkable turnaround since the Leverett House resident took over at the helm. After the Dartmouth game, they were 2-2-1. Since Princeton, they are 3-0-1, the only blemish on their record coming in a tic against heavily favored, non-league opponent, Holy Cross...

Author: By Benjamin R. Reder, | Title: Greg Gizzi | 11/18/1983 | See Source »

...front stoop, crooning softly of going far, far away to find another mother. "What she did to my young brother was worse. When he was two years old, she tried to hang him from the shower curtain and drown him in the toilet. He still has tic-tac-toe marks across his chest from being held down across a red-hot heating grate. From the time he was born, my. mother groomed my brother to kill my father. When Daddy came home, she made us tell him how much we hated him. I went to bed and prayed he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Abuse: The Ultimate Betrayal | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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