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...Hughes' debut on November 10, Blaeser capitalized on a Harvard defensivelapse while the Crimson was on the power play.Blaeser's shorthanded goal one minute into thethird period was the Elis' lone tally of the game.The Crimson's defensive breakdown went to theKangaroo Court--the Harvard hockey team's judicialbody--to determine exactly who was responsible forputting the blemish on Hughes' otherwise perfectperformance...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Icemen Face Real Test This Weekend | 11/29/1990 | See Source »

...door-to-door for Herbert Hoover last year. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'd like to be Harvard President, although, come to think of it, the one person I know who went to Harvard was my cousin Irving, who later had a nervous breakdown in which he put on a squirrel costume and tried to climb the Empire State Building, so maybe its not such a hot idea after all. Sincerely, Allen Konigsburg (Woody "Allen...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: New York State of Mind | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

...face it, the plight of the Black underclass grows more uncontrollable every day. What's worse, the most helpless victims of ghetto crime and violence are not white or middle-class, but Black and poor. Yet rather than confront this breakdown in civilized behavior, many Black leaders continue to search for an oppressor...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Alibis, Excuses and Black Leaders | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...Harry Karl, who eventually drank and gambled his way through his millions and into debts large enough to swallow her fortune too. The bright starry life-style collapsed by 1972 into a Saturnian world with concentric rings of emotional pain, financial instability and psychological drama. "My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us," says Carrie. To dig their way out of the financial hole, Debbie went back to Broadway, starring in the musical Irene. Carrie played in the chorus behind Mom. By 16 Carrie struck out on her own and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIE FISHER: A Spy In Her Own House | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...crises of August have not so much disappeared as given way to discussions about fresh shortages of eggs and butter; well-founded fears of forthcoming scarcity in supplies of potatoes, vegetables and fuel; anxious predictions of riots in coming months. The nation's leaders openly allude to a possible breakdown of authority and descent into anarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union No Shortage of Rumors | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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