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...Brown basketball squad won a last-minute 70-69 victory over winless Yale last night, as the Elis' efforts to overcome a five-point deficit failed...
...past decade in an effort to make educational opportunity equal in America. He finds no reason to believe that spending more money will greatly improve the quality of schooling. As evidence, he reports that children who attend elementary schools with high budgets probably gain no more than a five-point advantage on standard tests over those enrolled in low-budget schools. Differences among public high schools affect their students even less. "Almost every high school has some dropouts, some students who take a diploma but do not attend college, and some students who enter college." With surprisingly little variation between...
...persuasiveness of Lucas' tutorials in Realpolitik that he begins gaining points on Jarmon by compromising his principles. At the outset of the campaign, when reporters ask "What about property taxes?" he replies, "I don't know." Later he has learned to refer questioners to complex, five-point position papers prepared by his staff, and to give cagey, vague answers during televised debates...
Last night, the Lakers did everything right, and they did it at the best possible time. They took advantage of cold New York shooting at the start of the third period to expand a five-point halftime lead into a 20-point rout...
...there are a number of American soldiers fighting in the ranks of the liberation army." He then went on to launch what sounded very much like an UNCLE HO WANTS YOU campaign. U.S. defections, Thao proclaimed, would be encouraged by a just-issued V.C. "order of the day." The five-point order instructed the Viet Cong not to attack G.I. units that refrained from hostile action. G.I.s desiring to slip over to the other side would need only to flash some antiwar literature to secure safe conduct into V.C. territory. Defectors would be assured help in getting to a neutral...