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Rioting in Port-au-Prince appeared to be quelled by midday. The streets filled with police, troops in battle gear and the Volunteers for National Security militia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haiti Declares Seige Over Violence | 2/1/1986 | See Source »

...when Harvard shifts into league gear for good--wrapping up the season with 11 Ivy games starting January 31--it can be sure of one thing...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Escaping The Midyear Doldrums | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

Coming off the dramatic 66-63 win over favored Dartmouth last Saturday, the 8-4 Crimson have a full week to gear up for Penn and Princeton, who will make their annual visits to Briggs Athletic Center this weekend...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: A Slam-Duncan Performance | 1/8/1986 | See Source »

...entire season of duds, however, would have been offset by The Mission. The hour-long tale, directed by Spielberg himself, followed a World War II bomber crew on its "bad luck" 23rd mission. The plane's landing gear is knocked out in a dogfight, and a young gunner finds himself trapped inside a turret in the plane's belly. The scenes inside the aircraft had the claustrophobic intensity of Das Boot; the crew members were credibly scared and human; and the suspense built as relentlessly as in Jaws. Despite a fanciful and unsatisfying climax, the show was a small masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Out of the Series Straitjacket | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...type of cancer, you need a different combination," suggests Dr. Jordan Gutterman, of Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. IL-2 may also prove useful in combination with standard chemotherapy or as a follow-up to surgery. Stenzel theorized that after such traditional treatments, IL-2 could "gear up the patient's own cells to scavenge any remaining tumor cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Arming Cancer's Natural Enemies | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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