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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While most Harvard cyclists use their bikes as transportation, members of the Harvard cycling club prefer the thrill of competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racing With the Club | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

Beating Princeton is one thing. It's beating an Eastern powerhouse like UNH, Northeastern or Providence that would be the junior's greatest collegiate thrill...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Ringette to Hockey in Ten Easy Steps | 2/17/1988 | See Source »

...Olympic Center downtown is free but is a pale imitation of the real thing. The equally free simulation of the 90-meter ski jump, however, is realistic enough to discourage all but the most demented from thinking about attempting the actual hill. Fortunately, that is a thrill forbidden to foolish amateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Preview: Calgary Stirs Up A Warm Welcome | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...welcome thrill for visitors carrying U.S currency: the greenback goes 27% further in Calgary. Despite the battering the dollar has taken virtually everywhere else, Canadians still refer to it as "real money." A few other measurements differ as well. Nostalgia buffs will be able to buy gasoline once more at Esso stations, but it is sold by the liter, not by the gallon. And then there are the speed limits, which are delineated in kilometers per hour. Calgarians, like most Canadians, are unusually law abiding by American standards. When it comes to speeders, the Mounties almost always get their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Preview: Calgary Stirs Up A Warm Welcome | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...NESN needed another commercial break. Everyone on the ice relaxed. Several people started skating in circles. By the time the game got going again, the thrill was gone. Somehow it was predictable that the whole confrontation became irrelevant 14 seconds later when Shea put an 80-ft. slapshot into the empty Crimson...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: TV Sports: Gimme a Break | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

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