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...that hideous, 28-mile-long scar through the heart of a once proud European capital, not to mention the soul of a people. And then -- poof! -- it was gone. Not physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more than a generation. It was one of those rare times when the tectonic plates of history shift beneath men's feet, and nothing after is quite the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Freedom! The Berlin Wall | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Captain Char Joslin. Joslin whaled the ball towards the upper left corner of the net over Bruin goalie Sarah Lamont for what seemed to be a sure goal. But Bruin senior back Laura Sullivan materialized from nowhere, stopping the ball with her hand to give the Crimson a penalty stroke...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Brown Nabs Ivies in OT | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...face off with Lamont, Cutone, Harvard's designated flicker, pushed the ball in the net with one strong, quick stroke to tie the game...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Brown Nabs Ivies in OT | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...late in regulation, Cutone zipped a penalty stroke past the husky six-footer to tie the game. The team of destiny was ready to cop its first-ever title. The seniors' years of hard work was about...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...eliminating the two key elements of the three-part structure, the Faculty Council in one stroke doomed all the work of the Verba committee to irrelevance and failure. At the same time, they publicly praised the report with meaningless rhetoric and touted their appointment of an assistant dean to a now essentially meaningless role...

Author: By Wendell C. Ocasio, | Title: The Failure of the Verba Report | 10/26/1989 | See Source »

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