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...player and the Tigers smashed Harvard, 8-1, last year, the Crimson is favored to sweep this weekend's festivities, and not just because of the home advantage. Harvard currently has a healthy team that recently won the five-man national championships. The crew includes a talented slew of freshmen and sophomores, as well as seniors looking to leave with another national championship...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: Racquetmen Seek Revenge Against Tigers Tomorrow | 2/3/1990 | See Source »

Among the slew of network mid-season replacements, Grand is a good bet for hitdom. Its executive producers are Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, the team responsible for three of TV's five top-rated shows: Roseanne, The Cosby Show and A Different World. Despite a misfire last fall with Chicken Soup, the duo are as hot as TV producers get. CBS even talked to them in December about taking over the network's programming division. (The negotiations fell through.) Perhaps because of their clout, Grand has been given a near indestructible time period: the half-hour following Cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Banging Away at the Piano Works | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

Olympians Lane MacDonald '88-'89 and Allen Bourbeau '87-'89 never slew the Whale. Neither did Hobey Baker brothers Mark Fusco '83 and Scott Fusco...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Spouting Off About the Curse of the Yale Whale | 11/11/1989 | See Source »

...house is a time-consuming affair. The morning that Willie Anderson's home is delivered begins with workers hoisting the house's concrete steps onto a pickup truck while Anderson and her children pile broken bricks and stack cut wood. Clearance for the move requires approval from a slew of bureaucrats, and Walter Malone, 52, a professional house mover who has completed 30 jobs for Sister Grace, still has a few final forms to sign and fees to pay. "The biggest difficulty is the paperwork," he says, pointing to a glove compartment crammed full of documents. "I got so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canton, Mississippi A New Kind of Moving Day | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...right, Jesse Helms accuses the White House of abandoning the coup plotters in their noble struggle. On the left are a slew of Democrats who have the gall to denounce Bush's inaction in Panama after repeatedly warning him against military adventurism abroad...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Nosing Away From Panama | 10/26/1989 | See Source »

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