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Columbia, which didn't win a contest last year, will enter Saturday's 1:30 p.m. game as co-holder of the longest current non-winning streak in all of Division 1-A and 1-AA football. The Lions have gone 14 games in a row without a victory, and that ties them with Tennessee Tech--also in Division 1-AA--for the dubious honor...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: For Openers, It's Harvard vs. Columbia | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

Only the University of the District of Columbia of Division II fame has a longer non-winning streak. Its streak--the longest current non-winning streak in all of college football...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: For Openers, It's Harvard vs. Columbia | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

...losing streaks are concerned--these don't include ties--Columbia has the second longest active losing streak in Division 1-AA. The Lions have lost 11 straight. They trail--guess who--Tennessee Tech, which has chalked up 14 consecutive losses...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: For Openers, It's Harvard vs. Columbia | 9/20/1985 | See Source »

...five patients who have so far received permanent Jarvik-7 hearts, three are still alive. But all have suffered serious complications. William Schroeder, 53, at 42 weeks the longest survivor, has had two strokes; his speech and memory are impaired. Murray Haydon, 59, also had a stroke. Swedish Businessman Leif Stenberg, 53, the only non-American to receive a Jarvik-7 and the patient who had fared the best so far, recently suffered a severe stroke in Stockholm. Stenberg's misfortune was particularly disappointing to Heart Developer Robert Jarvik; the heart implanted in the Swede was a newer version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Buying Time with an Artificial Pump | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...Russell was elected mayor by the council after four weeks and 11 tallies. The longest it ever took so elect a mayor of Cambridge was four months and 1200 ballots...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: LaRosa Garners Cambridge Council Seat | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

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