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Vellucci managed to dominate the council's last two year term and climbed to the mayoralty this session precisely because of the way he straddled the fence between Independents and the CCA over the hottest political issue in the city. Though Vellucci more than anyone is responsible for the city's housing guidelines, he never staked out a clear position on the issue of whether Cambridge should weaken its tough controls against condominium conversion. Those controls protect rent-controlled housing from the open market forces that would transform them into luxury condos...
Meanwhile, Ivan Lendl, the game's hottest player, decided to pass up Wimbledon to avoid a likely letdown after all the recent euphoria surrounding his six-tournament win streak. He has emerged victorious in five of his last six encounters with John McEnroe, the world's top-ranked player. But at Wimbledon, his payoffs are traditionally paltry. In a total of three outings, he has only reached the quarterfinal round once. Realizing that slippery, unpredictable grass courts are less hospitable to his power-paced grooved baseline game, the 21-year-old Lendl reasons. Why take two weeks off prior...
...then there is Harvard Just how talented is the ECAC's hottest team, winners of four straight by a combined score...
...years ago the uses and abuses of SATs. LSATs, MCATs and other standardized exams held national prominence as education's hottest controversy. But earlier this month when the National Research Council finally issued its long-awaited report on the subject, the document caused little stir. Instead most educators seem to have accepted the report as a near-comprehensive survey that lays most major questions to rest...
...standings with B. C. currently on front in the race for first in the Eastern Region. And though the Beanpot doesn't count in ECAC statistics. Northeastern knows what a difference it can make anyway. The 1980 Beanpot changed the Huskies from the doormat of the East to the hottest team in the country. In the first half of last season they mowed down their first 13 opponents. They then faltered in consecutive 5-3 losses to Cornell and B.C., were destroyed by Harvard and B.U. in the Beanpot, and ended up barely making the playoffs. They've recovered from...