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...Though criticism rained down on conservative talk-show hosts from callers outraged that one of Clinton's former law students had been allowed to preside over the case, the fact is that Wright is no fan of Bill Clinton's. She was frosted over the infamous incident involving final exams in the class she took from him: he lost her exam and offered to give her a B+; she fought with him, won the right to retake the exam and got an A. In fact, defense lawyers in one of the cases Starr brought in the Whitewater probe were worried...
Harvard students swept the 12-question exam last December, taking four of the six "Fellows" awards, which carry a $2,500 scholarship for high individual scores, and capturing a total of fourteen out of the top 58 individual scores...
...exam began in 1938 when the Mathematical Association of America took over the responsibility for carrying out what was the brainchild of William Lowell Putnam, Harvard class of 1882. This year, 2,510 students from 419 colleges and universities devoted a Saturday to the six-hour exam, on which fewpeople score any points...
According to Taubes, about sixty Harvardstudents took the exam this year, but, saidDevelin, anyone who is interested in math shouldattempt the Putnam...
...opposed to the Olympiad, the Putnam [exam]doesn't put any pressure on anybody," Oprea said