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Despite the different records, both teams travelled the same path in the Boston Garden. And as the only Harvard teams to do so in the '80s, these two squads bracket an era of Harvard hockey which can never be repeated, as Harvard followed dismal 1981 by reaching six of the next seven NCAA tournaments, culminating in the 1989 championship...
This year's Harvard men's basketball team will never be mistaken for Guy Lewis' Houston teams of the early '80s. Houston relied heavily on the inside game of Akeem Olajuwon, yet consistently lost close games due to ineptitude from the foul line...
This decade mania is getting out of hand. Pundits had barely finished figuring out what distinguished the '80s from the '70s (now what was that difference again?) when they set about trying to characterize the '90s, a decade still in diapers: the "get real" decade; the Nervous '90s. How about the Name-Obsessed...
...fighting in the Gulf? I'm not sure, but the crisis came along conveniently in the middle of the Savings and Loan scandal--in which the president's son was emerging as a major figure--at a time when the economy was entering a post-'80s hangover, and at a time when there were calls for deep cuts in the defense budget. What I am sure of is that the war cannot be justified...
During the year, the symbolic targets of the '80s were shot down one by one: Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, Imelda Marcos, Manuel Noriega, Michael Milken. Each comeuppance inspired an uneasy mix of glee and fear -- uneasy because we had so lately embraced the values of those whose falls we were cheering...