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The ancient Greeks used the term "aristocracy" to describe a state governed by those whom the people considered the best and most able individuals in the state. The Harvard admissions office, much as the people of a Greek polis chose their leaders, endeavors to admit the best and most able...
If greeting-card creator Susan Polis Schutz were fashioning a card to mark the event, it might feature a Day-Glo rainbow anchored in a pot of gold. Schutz and her husband Stephen, both 44, won a two-year battle that pitted their small, Boulder-based card company, Blue Mountain...
INDIAN POLIS Frank Kush ended two weeks of speculation yesterday by announcing he had resigned as coach of the NH's Indianapolis Colts to accept a five year contract to coach the Arizona Outlaws of the United States Football I eague.
Mondale has run a disgraceful, Munder-riddled campaign for the presidency, without proposing any substantive alternatives to the problems he perceives in the Reagan Administration. Mondale squandered a whopping lead in the polis to an obscure, alumnus of Yale, who ultimately captured more state primaries. He did not seal the...
I would not trust the polis this time. Sure, McGovern would probably loss. But still, there was a chance, somewhere. There was still that element of "voters unpredictability." I hoped that the election would at least still be close. I expected--or wanted--the outcome to be indefinite until the...