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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, Cornell rolled into town, but soon rolled back to Ithaca after suffering a 7-2 defeat...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netmen Cannonball Cadets, Big Bad Red | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Those two wins put the Crimson in the championship group, but it needed to beat cross-town rival MIT in its final Group B game to be ranked first...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Aquawomen Second in Easterns | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...those fabulously wealthy club alums who went on to run Wall Street? I guess they all jumped out the window after the October crash. reduced, like the slow cockroaches, to a pool of goo. I finally landed a job over 650 miles away from Boston, back in my home town, completely sans alumni. According to my club directory, there were perhaps five of my club alums who originated here, none of whom are likely to have remained. Some network. Dialing "O" for operator assistance would probably be more helpful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Club Fallacies | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

Then again, Simon's ludicrous script leaves Parikh in a rather uncomfortable bind. As the passionately intellectual schoolmaster, he comes to town in order to educate the incorrigibly dimwitted Sophia. Despite his consuming interest in higher math and philosophy, Parikh must somehow be convincing in falling in love with...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Simple Simon | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

Upon the teacher's effort hinges the fate of the whole town. For in the distant past, an evil aristocrat put the town under a spell that, ever since, has rendered everyone in the town both mindless and unable to love. The only way the spell can be broken is if either a member of the Zubrisky family marries someone of the aristocrat's line, or if someone can educate Sophia. If the teacher fails to do so within 24 hours, the age-old curse will strike the promising intellectual as dumb and loveless as his pupil...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Simple Simon | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

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