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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard wasn't able to get on the scoreboard until late in the second quarter. Midfielder Robert Griffith took a pass from attackmen Steve Lux. With a flick of his wrist he quickly erased the goose egg with one minute remaining...

Author: By Nicholas N. Branca, | Title: Nationally-Ranked Laxmen Roughed Up | 4/21/1988 | See Source »

...years ago, the Harvard hockey team came one flick of the wrist away from immortality...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Days When Michigan State Was Champion | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

...Bourbeau, with three flicks of his wrist, turned a 2-1 first-period deficit into a 4-3 second-period lead. Harvard was on the doorstep of destiny...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Days When Michigan State Was Champion | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

Hockey players may wear pads, but not bulletproof vests. Taking a slap shot in the chest hurts a little more than, say, receiving a slap on the wrist...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Icemen Blast Cats, 7-1 In Consolation Game | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

...slap-on-the-wrist penance package infuriated many national Assemblies leaders and church folk in general, who clogged the Springfield switchboard with calls protesting the special treatment. After all, until church law was changed in 1973, a clergyman who made such a confession would have been expelled for two years, though most left for good. Even under today's more lenient rules, it is unprecedented for an Assemblies minister caught in a sex scandal to be barred from the pulpit for less than a year. Headquarters was also perturbed that the Louisiana district had announced its plan publicly rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Now It's Jimmy's Turn | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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