Word: greates
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AFTER making great strides in the 1960's and 1970's, the nation is now "moving backward" in civil rights, a commission led by Presidents Carter and Ford has concluded...
That brings me to a second point, about Ivy League athletics in general. The temptation is great, when an Ivy school is failing in athletics, to simply lower its standards and raise its winning percentage. That there is a direct trade-off between admissions standards and on-court success is a stark fact of life for Ivy League sports...
There's nothing particularly wrong with aspirations for great wealth or spectacular achievement (in fact, you're all invited for a ride on my yacht someday, right after my Nobel prize party), but what I do resent is the obligation that's implied by a Harvard degree. It's as if the rules in the student handbook read, "no boistorous games in the Yard, no hanging posters with nails, and no post-graduate incomes below $25,000 the first year unless attending law or med school...
Tribe said he did not expect his work on the committee and his role as chairman to interfere with his teaching in the fall. He added that his selection as chairman "doesn't mean a great deal." He said his role will be primarily to conduct the meetings...
...successful it would require a great deal of discussion by policymakers," as well as "agreement for general policy on the part of the City Council," Wolf said yesterday...