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...equalizing financial aid--why should a prospect become more needy at one school than another, given relatively equal tuition?--the practice of admissions "overlap" is a dubious one at best. Whether or not MIT took part in "price fixing," the financial aid system as it now stands encourages a flagrant excess of academic recruiting...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: The Free Agency Applicant | 10/5/1993 | See Source »

...think it need be as expansive as we fear. I don't see you sort of ferrying your armed police all over the world keeping order. I think it's much more how you throw your weight in the world arena politically, and how you demonstrate your outrage at flagrant misbehavior in places where it can be stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Distorted Our Own Minds: John le Carre | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

...picture I see is that of a beaten man who is not combative or aggressive." He faulted each defendant: Koon for failing to intervene, Wind for six "brutal kicks," Briseno for stomping on King's neck, and Powell for a fusillade of chest blows that he termed "the most flagrant violation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Justice in the Dock | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...paper can be torn to pieces; % tangibles have to be taken by force. When I say tangibles, I mean territory. We live in a region in which international agreements are not based on the Bible or the Koran. Two years ago, Iraq invaded, occupied and annexed Kuwait, in flagrant violation of inter-Arab agreements. If it can happen between two Arab countries, what is to stop it from happening between Arabs and Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yitzak Rabin: Peace Before Land | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...rest of the game looked like typical Union hockey: sloppy and slow. Union, despite a number of flagrant hits, was saved most of the penalties, though, while Harvard collected nine in the last 40 minutes of the game, including a 5-minute major called on Farrell for cross-checking in the third...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Icemen Open Season in Style, Thrash Union | 11/14/1992 | See Source »

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