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Players still around today remember the first Beanpots because of the excitement of playing in the Garden, because it was B.C., B.U., Harvard and (at that time) a much weaker Northeastern team, because it was a local event with mostly Boston-area kids, because it was, as both Cleary, now Harvard's coach, and Dempsey put it, "a real adrenaline pumper" playing in the Beanpot...
...deterrence" breaking down and the defense of Europe becoming "decoupled" from that of the U.S. Imagining future crises, they feared that the Soviets might be able to use their by now vast strategic power to hold America's central forces in check while they advanced bishops and knights against weaker NATO pieces on the European chessboard...
...second lesson was that winning streaks die hard. The Crimson's now stands at 26, currently the longest in Division I swimming. Even faced with the prospects of Reading Period and facing a letdown against one of the weaker squads in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL), the aquamen weren't about to let that distinction slip away...
Although many of the aquamen said they welcomed the break from studying. Coach Joe Bernal noted the problems in facing the EISL's weaker teams during January's academic crunch. "It's hard for them to keep the conditioning aspect the motivational aspect and their focus facing teams that may not make a demand on them like Dartmouth or Brown [the Crimson's next opponent...
...reason for the uncertainty is that no one knows what causes AIDS, and there is no single laboratory test to certify its presence. AIDS usually begins with swollen glands, fever, loss of appetite and a rundown feeling. As the illness progresses, the immune system grows weaker, leaving the patient vulnerable to viruses, bacteria and other problems. Among the most pernicious of these is Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), which has a 60% fatality rate, and Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that has stricken nearly 40% of AIDS victims, killing at least one-fifth of them...