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...year streak as the top college in the nation. Adding insult to injury, the U.S. News survey dropped Harvard right past second to a lowly third, behind Yale and Princeton, respectively. Harvardians responded with a mix of consternation and indifference to the news that their alma matter had fallen from its lofty position as the undisputed best of the best. (On Yale's New Haven campus, however, screams of joy were reportedly heard over the steady stream of gunfire...
...mighty Harvard has fallen. After a six-year string of aces in U.S. News and World Report's annual issue about America's Best Colleges, it has slipped...
...nothing of substance to say, Dole has lamely promised that winning the war will be his "No. 1 priority." That's his fourth No. 1 priority so far--after school choice, a balanced budget and tax cuts. As for Clinton, recalling an old pledge might help. "If I've fallen short this year," he said in 1993, "it's in drug [prevention] programs." He's still falling...
...every 100,000 juveniles, 511.9 were arrested for murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault or other violent crimes. For the previous year, the figure per 100,000 was 527.4. The 2.9 percent drop is the first decline since 1987 in the combined rate for these felonies. Murder statistics have also fallen among 10-to-17-year-olds for the second consecutive year, and are now 22.8 percent below the 1993 level. Despite the encouraging numbers, police are still worried about the expected 17 percent increase in the teenage population over the next ten years. Since the majority of violent crimes...
...serious reform package designed to move people from welfare to work will entail certain short-term expenses, including provisions for child care and other supports that boost the effective wages of the working poor. Congress took one step in that direction by raising the minimum wage, which had fallen to its lowest level since 1956. Now it is taking two steps back...