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These rejections are not entirely the responsibility of the admissions office. Harvard is constrained in who it can admit in many sports by an Academic Index instituted in the 1980s to combat charges that academic standards for athletes were declining...
...academic index breaks down athletes' standardized test scores and high school class ranks to assure they are above a minimum standard. Each applicant is rated in three categories. SAT I, SAT II (formerly achievement tests) and class rank...
...happens, a classic treatise on these sorts of upsides and downsides of capitalism was written by the same economist who invented the misery index--Arthur Okun, Chairman of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. In 1975 he published a book called Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff. Its point was that there is natural tension between the two halves of its title. Redistributive taxation, minimum wages, unemployment insurance and the like may enhance equality, but they impede overall efficiency and growth. Ideology is partly a question of which side of the tradeoff you favor...
With Seles, Barbara lobs the first one in: "If you could sum up this year in one word, what would it be?" The interview goes smoothly, with Walters only occasionally referring to her trademark index cards. But because Seles arrived late, some New York City rush-hour-traffic noise creeps onto the tape and forces the crew to repeat one series of questions...
...concerns the knife attack on Seles two years ago by a lunatic at a tournament in Hamburg. The second time around, Walters comes up with a new question, one that's not on the index cards. Referring to the knife wound on Seles' back, Walters intently asks her, "Do you ever look at the scar?" Seles, tears welling up, replies, "Never. I'll never look...