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...first glance, the new set of Harvard admissions figures released two weeks ago seem to give cause for most advocates of diversity to cheer. In a year when the number of applicants overall declined 11 percent, the proportion of minorites admitted jumped slightly (about 1.5 percent) to 32.3 percent. Meanwhile, two groups--Hispanics and Asian-Americans--reached all-time high representation within the admitted Class of 1993 at 6.9 and 15.3 percent respectively, although levels for Black and Native American students remained virtually unchanged at 9.6 and .5 percent each...
...wonder the people in Burlington, Vt., cheer his name...
...Launch Control, were cool and precise: "Discovery -- performance nominal." But if Malone, the first woman to deliver the countdown for a space shot, betrayed little emotion, her colleagues at NASA could barely contain their excitement. "It gets better every time," exulted NASA administrator James Fletcher. He had reason to cheer: last week's launch of Discovery, the third shuttle mission since the 1986 Challenger disaster, was another significant milestone in the comeback of the U.S. space program...
...fans did not always have a lot to cheer about. Last year's ECAC Final Four appearance was the Cats first in 13 years. When the Cats finished sixth in the regular season this year, it look like they would be staying home again. Back to the blues...
...times when I would miss watching my daughter cheer or seeing my son in any of his projects, I'd sit back and say, `Am I going to regret this?'" Collins says...