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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last weekend illustrated that last season's glory is irrelevant now, except in that other teams are even more determined to upset the defending national champions...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Icemen Raise Banner Tonight | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

...biggest regatta I've won at Harvard," Bowers said. "It was the strongest field you'll find in the country except for may be the nationals...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Bowers, Harvard A-Boat Capture Sailing Crown | 11/16/1989 | See Source »

What is it about the Stadium that paralyzes the usually-potent Quaker football team? Penn has shared or won outright the Ivy League title every season since 1981 except for the Crimson's 1987 Ivy-winning campaign. In those seven seasons, the Quaker's Ivy record is 39-6-1 outside the Stadium, 0-3 inside the Stadium...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: The Stadium is Unkind to the Quakers | 11/15/1989 | See Source »

...fact is that nothing has changed since the spring, except for the degree of student enthusiasm about the issue. The statistics are well-known by now: only 6.3 percent of the University's senior faculty are women; 6.2 percent are minorities. And for tenure-track junior faculty, the statistics are not much better: 16.9 percent are women, 8.6 percent are minorities...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Where is Faculty Hiring This Fall? | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

...male buddies, poised at the uneasy boundary between youth and middle age, sprawl in an overdecorated apartment and dish the dirt about opera singers. None can meet their fierce standards except Maria Callas (a performance by whom provides the play's title). They admire her for blending technique and emotion and, more deeply, for enduring a sad life and lonely death. Other artists, they say, impersonate the passion and hysterics of opera; she lived them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Downbeat Duo | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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