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Editor's Note: The debate over how to ace Harvard exams without actually studying has raged for decades. On June 12, 1950, Donald Carswell '50 published his blueprint for success "Beating the System," for which he received the Dana Reed Prize in 1951 for excellence in undergraduate writing. The Crimson has reprinted it as a service to readers ever since. In 1962, the infamous, anonymous "Grader's Reply" first appeared...
Agents of the Kuwaiti government in exile have asked the Texas oil-field fire- fighting ace to stand by for the biggest job ever. Iraq has ringed the country's 600 oil wells and 26 processing plants with explosives, and if they blow, he'll get the first call to put out the Big Fire...
...Jersey, it is said that Bradley was punished by voters upset with Governor Jim Florio's $2.8 billion tax increase. That was part of it, but the main reason Bradley almost lost is that he threw away his ace. For 12 years Bradley was that rarest of breeds, a politician of decency, candor and intellect. "He looked at issues one at a time, voted as he thought right and never ducked," says G.O.P. consultant Roger Stone. Until this year. All of a sudden, the architect of the 1986 federal Tax Reform Act avoided taking a position on Florio's taxes...
...Madonna to her prototype, Marilyn Monroe. On her Blond Ambition tour, Madonna flashed chiseled biceps and deltoids, so impressing one Los Angeles critic that he wrote that instead of the customary audience call for "Author! Author!" the cry from Madonna's fans should be "Fitness trainer! Fitness trainer!" Tennis ace Martina Navratilova also notes the changing standards. When the Czechoslovak-born athlete defected to the U.S. in 1975, she was so embarrassed by her powerful build that she favored baggy, concealing clothes. "I was always covering up my arms because I have these big veins," she recalls, "and I didn...
...game's most feral competitor, whose "death stare" would spook Cyclops. Or face Bob Welch, the first American League pitcher since 1968 to win 26 games in a season. Try hitting a grounder through the A's stingy infield. And if you hope to rally, ponder the presence of ace reliever Dennis Eckersley, who has issued only seven bases on balls in two years. You can run but you can't walk...