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...Wishbone alone should be enough to draw you to the Stadium this afternoon at 1:30 for the Harvard-Northeastern neighborhood brawl. Throw in Harvard's Multiflex, and you should have more than enough incentive to attend what promises to be a showdown of offensive styles...
BOSTON--Less than a third of Boston's 207,000 registered voters are expected to turn out in today's non-partisan mayoral primary which is likely to produce a general election showdown between Mayor Raymond L. Flynn and City Councilor Joseph Tierney in November...
This piece originally appeared in the Fall1986 Registration issue.Spectators packed the Yale Bowl for this1914 Bulldog-Crimson showdown...
...battle over Bork could be the culminating ideological showdown of the Reagan era. After nearly seven years in office, the President has altered the tenor of the nation's political debate, riding and guiding the pendulum swing from the liberal Zeitgeist of the 1960s to the conservative climate of the '80s. Yet for all the talk of a Reagan Revolution, for all the President's personal popularity and success in changing tax and spending policies, the social agenda of the New Right has remained largely unfulfilled. When he nominated Bork, Reagan said that the judge "shares my view...
...hundreds of union stalwarts chanted their support in downtown Johannesburg last week, Ramaphosa declared, "The strike continues until our demands are met." Such confidence was expected of him, but the showdown had become an uneven match. The Chamber claimed that 340,000 employees and two- thirds of its 99 gold and coal mines continued to operate despite the strike. Meanwhile, the workers were losing at least $2.2 million a day in wages. They have no strike funds, which are illegal in South Africa. And replacements were readily available. Reflecting the miners' predicament, Ramaphosa last week lowered the union's proposal...