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...surprises of the first week confirm that once again pre-season outlooks mean little. One die-hard Harvard optimist said jokingly after yesterday's win, "Dartmouth and Brown both lost, so we have the Ivy title clinched...
...opinion polls, Kennedy is enormously popular at the moment (62% to Carter's 24% in the latest Yankelovich, Skelly & White survey). But he knows he is a liberal running in a conservative time, and he is beginning to fashion his defenses. Says he: "Labels don't mean much any more. I introduced the airline deregulation bill with Jim Buckley, who was then one of the most conservative members of the Senate. I don't disagree much with Carter's spending levels. I wanted $4 billion more for social programs and that's in a budget...
...have warned against "mischievous people" who are trying to divide the armed forces. What do you mean by that...
...because whites do them better than blacks, Jensen says, are evading the issue that all attempts to make the tests fairer have failed to raise blacks' scores. His conclusion: "None of these attempts to create highly culture-reduced tests has succeeded in eliminating, or even appreciably reducing the mean differences between certain subpopulations-races and social classes-in the United States...
...much as Harvard's unconcern about them that upset many Cambridge politicians. "It's just two more examples of Harvard's belief that it is above the law," City Council candidate David Sullivan said last week. "Just because Harvard is the biggest boy on the block doesn't mean they're not the bully," he added...