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...Harvard women's sailing team defeated seven other teams to win a team-boat championship this weekend. Tufts finished second, URI third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...Uri Ra'anan, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and an associate of the Harvard Russian Research Center, cited the "loose coalition" which elected Reagan last November, and his central focus on the economy as the main reasons for his underemphasis of foreign policy...

Author: By Andrew T. Pugh, | Title: Panel Attacks Reagan's Foreign Policy | 9/25/1981 | See Source »

...graduation, with the offense returning three starters and the defense just four. Although the backfield of Quarterback Larry Carbone and company is gone, the replacement could put as many points on the board. Junior Dave Flanders, who saw some action last fall and played a full game against URI, will step into the quarterbacking role. He will throw to tight end Steve Jordan, who snared 26 passes for almost 500 yards last year--and split end Mike Campbell--who grabbed 29 tosses, three for touchdowns...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Ivy 'Dogcatchers On Yale's Tail | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...this regard, Princeton may well be the favorite. Muse's charges lost three times in the last campaign by one goal, prompting an intensive recruiting drive--matched by U Penn and Yale--for the highly touted Uri Fishman, an explosive scorer who played his high school soccer in Connecticut...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Ivy Soccer: The Nucleus of Parity | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

Gardner saves his liveliest derision for gullible scientists and science writers -particularly those who lauded Israeli Magician Uri Geller and his "unearthly ability" to bend spoons with the power of his mind. In a dazzling chapter, Gardner, an amateur prestidigitator, demonstrates a dozen methods for deceiving the credulous, including sleight of hand, palmed magnets and misdirection. Yet even these instructions are offered more in fun than in malice. For early on, the skeptic's skeptic acknowledges that the most obvious evidence of fraud will not budge the True Believer. Instead, Gardner writes for those who agree with the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skeptic | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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