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Toss in Harvard defenseman Randy Taylor, and the schools boast the league's seven highest scorers and eight...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: 8-0-2 | 1/4/1985 | See Source »

...deadly trio all boast superb women's hockey programs that rely on athletic scholarships and heavy recruiting...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Icewomen Pounded, 7-1, By Mighty Providence | 12/13/1984 | See Source »

What made the squad's second and third victories of the year, so sweet was not the fact, the Midshipmen and the Lions boast the top teams in the East, though they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Avenge Last Year's Losses | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...Elis have moved up in the league primarily because they boast the best run defense in the league, a unit spearheaded by All-Ivy middle guard John Zanieski--the leading Yale tackler in 1983 and '84--and a superb pair of linebackers in Carmen Ilacqua and Ardel McKenna...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Back on the fast track | 11/16/1984 | See Source »

...about The Talisman as if it were a finished product, or even an ordinary novel. In fact it is something far more momentous, the first stage in the construction-the scaffolding and a few truckloads of apparitions, so to speak-of a Steven Spielberg movie. So the publicity blurbs boast. The director of Jaws and E.T. has bought the movie rights for a pot of money. Surely, by the way, this explains the dual authorship. The story's weight and complexity are not such that it is necessary to have one author shoveling coal while the other steers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monstrous | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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