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...Crimson easily dumped the host school, the University of Minnesota, and Arizona (16th in the preseason ratings), and barely squeaked past a powerful Texas team (which placed third at the tourney in L.A.), 27-25. Harvard won three singles divisions and one doubles bracket in the tourney. The Crimson also placed finalists in five of the seven singles matchups...
Utah defeated Harvard, 7-2, in the consolation bracket of the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association National Team Championships in Los Angeles. Harvard's Howard Sands, who defeated the number-one collegian Thursday, lost to 21st-ranked Greg Holmes, 6-1, 6-3, and Warren Grossman fell to Utah's Christian Schultes at the number-two singles spot...
Financial aid and education specialists at Harvard and in Washington said yesterday that President Reagan's proposed budget for 1984 only reappropriates many of the funds in already existing programs and will hurt students, especially in the lower-middle income bracket. The officials added that while they are worried about the possible negative effects the new budget will inflict on Harvard students, the Democratic Congress will probably vote down most of the budget...
...They are especially attractive to residents of the state or city selling them, because then they are usually exempt from state and local taxes as well. For example, a New York City couple with a taxable income of between $45,800 and $60,000 will be in a 51% bracket in 1983 if federal, state and local income taxes are all counted. So a New York State or city bond that pays 10% interest will produce as much money as a taxable investment yielding 20.4%. As Lebenthal points out, however, a bond's value fluctuates with interest rates...
...grew up with Mission Impossible and Jeopardy. Nor is the rest of today's popular culture forgotten: Star Wars-types titles and the Battlestar Galactica theme begin this film and, within minutes, E.T. appears in a pay phone booth. Those not in the eighteen to thirty age bracket will miss these reverential spoofs, but the puns and wordplay should be universally accessible. Three officers, names Over, Under and Done, involve themselves in the obvious ranking problems: was Under Over, or was Under over Done? And there are boundless throw-away lines: Ted is praised as "the real boss...