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...images of hope and horror. Jones can also be heard promoting Judge Dredd. His voice is one of many summer-trailer talismans, along with '60s songs, computer imagery, sexual facetiousness of the sort pioneered by James Bond films, and a lot of urgent I-love-you's. In Fluke, one of the summer's few kids' movies, a boy whispers...
...accepted pool of students has a record number of women, Hispanic Americans, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, and the number of Black students admitted was only two shy of the all-time high of 217 in the Class of '97. The record-breaking diversity is not an inexplicable fluke of admissions. It is the result of the school's active effort to target promising minority students in order to increase their representation at Harvard. Marlyn McGrath Lewis, Director of Admissions for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, explained that the "aggressive recruitment of strong minority candidates has been a goal...
...beginning] it was tough," Schutt said. "I let the first two in right away--they were really fluke goals. I knew that it wasn't going to be indicative of the rest of the game...
Harvard fans won't be kept in suspense too long. The Crimson plays its first game tomorrow at B.C., a 24-4 loser to Harvard last year. The huge score was only a minor fluke; if the Eagles get half as many points as the Crimson tomorrow it will be an upset...
...what experts said was a fluke...