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...root of the matter is the importance of winning--or at least, staying competitive. Obviously, Harvard has made a decision to grapple with the has made a decision to grapple with the complexities and problems associated with recruiting, rather than risk slipping further down the Ivy athletic ladder...
This happy chain has one last link, the local community. Closest to the people, providing the most direct services, and the last stop on the governmental ladder, with no one else to serve as a political buffer. And so, the Cambridge School Committee is meeting this week, trying to decide what is and isn't important. Remedial reading? Probably not. Elementary school science courses? Libraries? Guidance programs? It's like the old camp song, where the one guy rolls over, and the guy at the other end of the bed falls out. The MX missile rolls over; you can wish...
...time this season, the Florida Gators, Swimming World Magazine's top pick for the gold in this year's race for the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship, packed for home with only a third place finish while the truly Golden Bears from Cal Berkeley remained atop the collegiate swimming ladder with 234 points to 220 for runner-up Texas...
Eighteen years ago, when Murray Rose graduated from USC, the former Trojan swim hero did not look to his four Olympic gold medals for a quick boost up the ladder in the competitive world of mass media. Rose, who majored in communications, is one of those rare people who can say that their undergraduate careers prepared them for the future...
...title of "the opposition party." A complete severance of its ties with Moscow could make the party politically undistinguishable from its bourgeois opponent. Always on the defensive, the party follows a precarious path, extremely sensitive to the international political climate. Whenever the PCF begins to climb the electoral ladder, unexpected external events drop the party to the bottom rung. The party succumbs to a Sisyphian fate each time it bids for power...