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...place in the Secretariat and catapulted him into the Politburo's inner circle at the tender age of 49. Continuing failures on the farm have cut short the careers of past agricultural experts, but Gorbachev appears to be flourishing even though he has presided over a string of bad harvests (before the much improved 200 million-ton yield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: Standing at a Great Divide | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

NORMAN REVEALS a bewildering predilection for nursery rhymes in Traveler-this theme is carried over to Heidi Landesman's set, which features a gingerbread house and a fanciful Mother Goose garden. Sam quotes and analyzes nursery rhymes at great length, and the result is a tedious and heavy-handed string of tired metaphors describing the aforementioned Big Concepts. The funny one-liners which permeate the play also lose their effect after two repetitive hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Floundering In The Dark | 2/14/1984 | See Source »

When John Shattuck settles into his Massachusetts Hall office this summer, he'll be bringing to Harvard eight years of lobbying experience and a string of accomplishments most lawmakers would envy...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Left on Rights | 2/11/1984 | See Source »

Northeastern averages five goals a game, but defensive woes have kept the team in the bottom half of the East Division. Marshall's save rate and goals against average are the worst among the Beanpot teams' first-string goalies. Only Bucyk's play on a somewhat effective penalty-killing unit has kept Northeastern in several close games...

Author: By Michael D. Knobler, | Title: Battle of the Underdogs | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

...Beanpot games haven't counted in ECAC standings since the early 1970s and coaches whose teams land in the consolation round often save their first-string players for upcoming games that do count, eliminating the possibility of fatigue and injury...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: It's Only a Game | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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