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Last year, after the Harvard women's squash team had defeated Yale for the national championship, Libby Eynon '95 declared, "We opened up a can of whoop ass tonight...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, | Title: M. Squash Rules NCAA | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...outcome was typical for Harvard, whose phenomenal team history includes an overall Ivy League record of 176-15, 30 Ivy League championships in 40 years and 28 national championships. Whoop ass, anyone...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, | Title: M. Squash Rules NCAA | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...Charles G. Adams gave a passionate delivery of the William Belden Noble Lecture at Memorial Church last night, but he said he can't "whoop...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Charles Adams Inspires Mem. Church Audience | 10/14/1995 | See Source »

This will be the last of my introductory paragraphs. I've realized that they serve no purpose but to be introductory. And who needs one? You all know what this is about. Questions. Answers. Big whoop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma Knows | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...musical number at their inaugural gala in a Sacramento sports palace last month, not surprisingly brought down the house. But the striking thing was not that this most buttoned-up of Governors should let his hair down. It was the realization that just a year ago, any such whoop-de-do would have been unheard of: California's woes were nothing to make fun of. The state was still dazed by natural calamities and demoralized by an eco-nomic slump. Since last summer, though, the surfing state has been riding a wave of sustained recovery. And the buoyancy has helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBURBAN EVERYMAN | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

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