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...Harvard Cricket Club was formed by Peter Hannam '87, with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III as the club's faculty advisor. The club began with modest goals and meager facilities...
...opened Port Isabel Processing Center, 25 miles away. Two weeks ago, angry local officials forced the shutdown of an INS office in Harlingen to rid the town of 500 refugees who have been shoehorned into overcrowded shelters and camps since last year. At Port Isabel, the refugees, clutching their meager possessions, line up to be fingerprinted and questioned by immigration officials -- and then wait some more to find out if they will be allowed to partake of the American Dream...
Harvard shocked Northeastern, the fourth-ranked team in the country, 10-2, in the first round of the 'Pot. But no one expected much from the Crimson, which boasted a meager 7-11 record, in the final...
...make Americans more productive. But, like the supply-side forecasts of smaller deficits, both promises failed to come true. The personal savings rate fell from 7.1% in 1980 to about 4% last year. At the same time, the growth of business productivity, or output per hour, averaged a meager 1.4% from 1980 to 1987, half the rate of the 1960s. Reason: the savings decline slowed investments in productive new equipment...
...Cultural Literacy, centers on the idea that common knowledge eases communication and creates a national culture. The dictionary catalogues this particular information, excluding whatever Hirsch considers too specialized, generalized, regional or transient. He claims that widespread study of this body of knowledge can reverse the American educational decline. Apparently, meager teacher's salaries, budget cuts in public schooling, drugs and escalating drop-out rates are merely secondary causes of this decline. If teachers promised to pepper their lectures with proverbs, Biblical references and other culturally relevant trivia, would students really stay in school? Is this the way to achieve "high...