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...late October, the and LSAT registration rush is on at the "Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center" in Boston. It's a little more than a month away from the next exam, and students are crowded around the front desk, eagerly filling our forms and signing over $300 checks $50 refundable) without a flinch. School shirts and jackets reveal a cross-section of Harvard, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, and Wellesley students who have made the pilgrimage to the spanking new Kaplan center on the ninth floor of the Park Square Building...
Classes begin tonight, and students gather their course materials and head for one of the center's classrooms. They are met for the introductory session by Jack Powell, a young Boston trial-lawyer who is moonlighting as a Kaplan instructor "to get up the dough for the mortgage on my house." Small talk and jokes are bantered back and forth, and one can't help but feel that he is back in high school again. The atmosphere has that same tentativeness that always used to mark the first day of class, when you would size up the teacher, and vice...
Although Powell will go on to teach eight four-hour sessions from a Kaplan-prepared primer, tonight he is playing Ed McMahon. He is warming up the audience, setting the stage, we are told, for the main event--a papal blessing from the guru of the educational test-preparation business...
Harmenberg swept his three bouts, displaying an aggressive, yet fabulously controlled, attacking style. "He simply outclasses everyone in this league with his speed and parrying ability." Kaplan said afterwards. "There isn't anyone around who can seriously challenge...
Mike Bierer matched Harmenberg's epee performance with three sabre victories, while Kaplan, Hanower, Russ Kaphan, and varsity rookie Steve Biddle slashed their way to two wins apiece. Biddle overcame a one-sided thrashing at the hands of Harmenberg in his initial bout to provide crucial points in the second and third rounds...