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- Torrance Defendants to Make TV Debut
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- Common Ground : 700 Campus Clubs Bring UCLA Students Together
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- Women's Basketball : USC Defeats Arizona for 10th Straight
- Baseball : The Commissioner Seems to Have Worked Himself Into a Pickle
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- He Steps Up Assaults on Japan, Korea : Gephardt Populist Theme Powers New Surge in Iowa
- Firms Uneasy as Toxics Warning Law Draws Near
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- Same Close Game, Same Bad Result as Fullerton Falls to 0-7 in PCAA
- Long Beach Stages Another Comeback, 75-67
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