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...Vidur Mahadeva, 17, a top-scoring scholar from Wisconsin's Oshkosh North High School, puts it: "I get an awful lot of mail, especially from the little colleges-Beloit, St. Olaf and the rest." Fully 75% of four-year private colleges and 61% of state colleges and universities now buy mailing lists to send brochures to prospects. Lists of the 1.3 million juniors and seniors who take college entrance exams each year are sold to schools at roughly 12? a name-provided the students have authorized test sponsors to release their names...
...Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name of Sir Olaf McConnochie - and the admirable Alyss. Though Davey's novels tend to be more whosaidits than whodunits, Treasury offers alarums and excursions aplenty...
...historian and also an amateur archaeologist, had his doubts about that identification. While vacationing in England last summer, he discussed the coin with Peter Seaby, a noted British numismatist. After examining photographs, Seaby concluded that the coin was "almost certainly a Norse penny," probably dating to the reign of Olaf III Kyrre (the Quiet), King of Norway from 1066 to 1093. British Historian Michael Dolley concurred. Said he: "To me there's no doubt, it's a Norwegian coin struck in the 1070s...
Irion had decided to apply to Valparaiso, Wisconsin and St. Olaf's colleges before one of his high school teachers gave him an application form for Harvard...
...does another development, the perfection by Dr. Jon Olaf Strombeck of Stockholm of reduction mammoplasty, a technique for reducing the size of the breast. This can be used in reconstructive surgery to restore a measure of symmetry to the bust...