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Albert Belle's narrow loss to Boston's Mo Vaughn in the AL MVP voting gained the Indians outfielder no sympathy from the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
Rabin defeated Peres for the party leadership and went on to become Israel's youngest Prime Minister and the first sabra to hold that post. He won by a narrow margin, however, which meant he was compelled to include Peres in his Cabinet as Defense Minister (a concession he agreed to, he later confessed, with "a heavy heart"). His first term included several significant events, among them his authorization of the dramatic 1976 raid on Entebbe, Uganda--a decision that Peres, in an effort to undermine his rival, later suggested was "forced" upon a reluctant Rabin by the Cabinet...
...Bears come into the game guaranteed at least a tie for first place in the Ivy League following their narrow 2-1 victory over Harvard Sunday. Brown's Eric Block netted his eighth goal of the season in the winning effort, which dropped Harvard to 3-4-0 in the Ancient Eight and 5-7-3 overall...
...question arises: If aggregate growth has lately been widening the gap between the affluent and the middle class, why should spurring even more growth by unfettering capitalism be expected to narrow the gap? It's the most fettered capitalist economies that have kept that gap the narrowest. Virtually all European countries have higher taxes than the U.S. (as a fraction of economic output) and higher income equality...
...yearly rite of passage for the college-bound, and as the only nationally comparative factor, thousands of colleges and universities weigh scores heavily in their admission processes. It is used to narrow the field for designating Presidential Scholars, and (in the PSAT form) to hand out thousands of National Merit Scholarships. If the noble souls who write this test can't even figure out that giving an identical exam to the same people twice is unacceptable, should they be entrusted by students and learning institutions with such extraordinary power...