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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From here it was up to the big D. And in the finest tradition of that old saying about bending without breaking, the defense allowed the Cadets to put ten points on the scoreboard, but toughened up when it came down to the wire...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: This is Next Year for Cadet Squad; Army Has 15-10 Upset to Remember | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...former Soweto school teacher. It is a dismal place. The government-operated tourist bus drives past rows of uniform dirty gray row houses. Outhouses, made out of strips of corrugated metal, squat behind most of them: 80 per cent of Soweto's homes lack electricity and running water. Barbed wire surrounds a school and many of the homes...

Author: By James Altschul, | Title: South Africa: No Sand Left in the Hour Glass | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

Sounds like a down-to-the-wire thriller, doesn't it? It wasn't even close. The aquamen thoroughly dominated the Engineers last night in their home opener at Blodgett Pool and didn't let up until the final gun. Final score: 15-5, Harvard...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Water Polo Team Wins Home Opener, Swamps Befuddled Engineers by Ten | 10/2/1981 | See Source »

...honestly feel the race will go down to the wire," Cozza said. "Several teams have a shot at the title, Harvard, Cornell and Brown will be in the thick of it. I don't know if you can count anybody out. Any team can beat any other team in the League on any given...

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

...more ambitious than Prince of the City, which tells the story of a detective in a free-wheeling narcotics unit who decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) decides to turn on his fellow officers and surreptitiously "wear a wire" (tape recorder), Prince takes a relentlessly compelling journey through the value system of the entire profession. But there is a fatal flaw that prevents the movie from capturing the meaning of Ciello's "turning." The character even says it himself early in the story, when confronted by two ambitious prosecutors...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Pretender to the Throne | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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