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After every detail is weighed, the committee hands down its decision in a terse alphabetical shorthand. At Moody's, which pioneered the rating system back in 1909, the four top grades are Aaa, Aa, A and Baa, ranging from prime quality to faintly speculative. Standard & Poor's goes in for the upper case: AAA, AA, A and BBB. Dun & Bradstreet, which also owns Moody's but makes its own independent assessments, spells out its scale: prime, better good, good, medium good...
Varsity two-miler Walt Hewlett was the first collegian and only the sixth American across the finish line in yesterday's 26-mile BAA Marathon. Nearly 400 runners entered the race. Hewlett's time of 2:32:44, only 12:45 off the winning pace of Belgium's Aurele Van den Driessche, was the best finish ever by a Harvard runner in the 63-year-old Patriots' Day classic...
Fortunately Awori's ankle was heavily taped to guard a braise suffered in a similar accident in last week's BAA games, so the junior ace incurred no new injury, other then some scrapes on his knees and elbows...
McCurdy reported yesterday that Awori's sinkle, injured in last Saturday's BAA meet and heavily taped during Wednesday's competition, has looked sound in practice and will be healthy for the Big Green today...
Awori knocked his ankle hard against a hurdle in Saturday's BAA meet, and it was feared he had suffered a sprain. He did not work out with the squad on Monday...