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Evans, who has yet to encounter any serious challenge to her number-one Eastern ranking, handily defeated UVa's nationally ranked finest, Marian Gengler, in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. Against William and Mary, Evans faltered a bit in the second set but held...
...game matched two of the finest pitchers in baseball but it was decided in a battle of home runs. Baltimore's Jim Dwyer, one of the Orioles' platoon players, belted a first inning homer and oldtimer Joe Moral tied in the sixth for the Phillies...
Lest you think the game was a one-woman show, understand that the entire offense also turned it one of its finest efforts of the year to down the Ithacans. Granted, the Big Red isn't about to dazzle the field hockey world any time soon, but few teams could have stopped the impressive play of Clifton, Bambi Taylor and Andy Mainelli...
...rejects the notion that public education has failed. After spending a total of 30 months com piling observations of high schools across the nation, the report's author concluded that the best American high schools, which educate 10% to 15% of all students, are the world's finest. Says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation and former U.S. Commissioner of Education under Jimmy Carter: "School is in a very real sense a mirror of its community. Tune and time again, we saw that community support or community conditions were shaping the school. So, in a very real...
...Winston and Julia rebelled, fell in love and paid the penalty in the terroristic world of tomorrow is the thread on which Britain's George Orwell has spun his latest and finest work of fiction. In Animal Farm, Orwell parodied the Communist system in terms of barnyard satire; but in 1984, there is not a smile or a jest that does not add bitterness to Orwell's utterly depressing vision of what the world may be in 35 years' time...