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...right defensive wing has become an integral cog on the strongest part of the Harvard squad. The Crimson defense has keyed several wins on the road top the current 12-1 record that include: a 12-game winning streak and the squad's fourth straight Ivy League championship...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: ALYCE WRIGHT | 5/9/1984 | See Source »

...total history of a community." An election is the ritual revolution of democratic government, a revolution more telling when it follows 16 years of one man's rule. In naming a new leader we reveal what in us that leader represents. For a newspaper that sees itself as another cog in the bureaucracy, it is enough to cover the candidates. It would be more difficult--and much more critical--to stand back and cover the city...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Controlling the Fourth Estate | 10/12/1983 | See Source »

...students are finding it is much more exciting and challenging to be working for yourself than being a cog in a corporate wheel," Gleba said More than 500 students last spring flocked to a conference at the university concerning small business enterprises, he added...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Student Businesses Thrive at Stanford | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

...here I was in the grinder again. I knew what I had to face. You get into the machine and you're just a little cog. You're nothing major." An eerie falsetto fills the corridor. An inmate walks by outside the door to Sy's cell, shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Prisoner | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...going to compliment Ken Anderson and get away with it. Anderson, 32, hailed last week by a florid Cincinnati sportswriter as "Jack Armstrong come to life in a football uniform," is the classic aw-shucks hero, resolutely unquotable, eager to point out that he is merely one cog in the great Bengal machine. That machine indeed has some brilliant parts, finely tuned by its no-nonsense coach, Forrest Gregg. One All-Pro wide receiver, Veteran Isaac Curtis, has been joined by another, exuberant Rookie Cris Collinsworth. Pete Johnson, a.k.a. the human bowling ball, is a hard-hitting, if not overwhelming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Ideal Quarterback | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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