Word: hugeness
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...first set win into the second. Blake's opponent began serving and volleying in the initial game, and took the first point to go up 15-0. On the next point Blake hit a gorgeous topspin lob for a winner for 15-15. On the next two points a huge forehand pass and an unplayable service return gave Blake two break points. The freshman squandered one break chance, but took the game with a spectacular topspin forehand taken...
...second differential represented a small margin in what amounted to a huge victory for the Crimson crew. While this win will not send them to the top of the Eastern rankings, it vindicated a crew which had yet to perform up to its potential...
With the two big Ivy wins, the weekend was a huge success for the Crimson, as it improved its Ivy record to 4-0. As the clear frontrunner for the Ivy crown, Harvard now takes on the Yale Bulldogs and the Brown Bears in the friendly confines of the Palmer-Dixon courts next weekend...
Even these numbers do not tell the full story. This year there was a huge increase--to 6,846, or fully 15% of admissions--of those who did not identify themselves by race. (This is not surprising, given the fact that after Proposition 209 there was no advantage or disadvantage associated with race.) Not counting these students and looking just at those whose race we know for sure, black and Hispanic admissions at the UC system declined only slightly, from 17.7% to 17.2% of freshmen. (African Americans going from 3.7% to 3.3%; Hispanics remaining steady at about 14%.) This...
Given the huge academic handicap burdening black students admitted under affirmative action--their average SAT scores were 288 points below the Berkeley average--this dropout rate is understandable. These students were arbitrarily thrown into an environment with students far more advanced academically. The result was predictable: failure. Even more tragic is the fact that these bright black students, as social theorist Thomas Sowell puts it, "were perfectly qualified to be successes somewhere else" but were instead "artificially turned into failures by being admitted to high-pressure campuses, where only students with exceptional academic backgrounds can survive...