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Well, for the Radcliffe varsity crew team yesterday, everything came in twos, as the heavyweight varsity eight and the lightweight varsity four both placed second and lost by two seconds in their respective Eastern Sprints races on Lake Waramaug in New Preston...

Author: By Lori J. Lakin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Radcliffe Crews Place Second at Easterns | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...Converse-Roberts), a young, success-driven banker. We see him making connections at cocktail parties, bad-mouthing fellow-workers to his boss and jetting to exotic lands to work out deals. His significant other, Fran (Alice Manning), is just as stereotypical (but then, don't they always come in twos). She feels her pink-collar job as a graphics artist fails to stimulate her intellect and is unsatisfied with her romantic life. So Fran sleeps with...Peter (Peter Crombie), Paul's old '60s throwback friend, who at least talks of the old idealism even if he too has actually lost...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Big Deal | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

Following the initial instruction, the teachers seperate the fifth-graders into smaller groups of twos and threes and work with them further on getting the combinations, she says...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Cambridge Kids Step Out With Style | 4/15/1988 | See Source »

...seemed to reach out for Holmes, though Tyson tried. "At his best, he was the greatest of our time," said the undefeated young barbarian, 21, who meant it kindly. "I always used to want Holmes to win, except when he fought Ali." So even afterward, Tyson was landing one- twos. In the prefight keynote, one last time, the vague old champ Muhammad Ali was paraded in front of the unfortunate man whom history had designated to follow him. Later, as Holmes spun drunkenly about the ring, Ali's former corner physician Ferdie Pacheco murmured, "Those are the knockdowns that make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To The Finish Someone eventually gets us | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

...separately; we went out for coffee in twos and threes. Finally the four of us ended up around the same table. Again and again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Is A State Of Mind | 10/23/1987 | See Source »

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