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According to a December poll by the Opinion Research Corporation, the percentage of Americans who think rising costs will put higher education out of the reach of most Americans rose from 77 percent in 1985 to 82 percent last year...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson is ranked 15thin this week's NCAA poll. Three other Ivy Leagueteams are ranked ahead of Harvard: Cornell (2nd),Brown (9th) amd Penn (14th). Should the Crimsondefeat Dartmouth Saturday, however, it wouldfinish in a tie for second place in the Ivy Leaguewith the Bruins and the Quakers...Five ofHarvard's 18 goals Saturday came on unassistedefforts. Two of the three Holy Cross scores werealso unassisted. Seventeen of the 18 Crimsontallys were scored from within five meters, a signof crisp passing and strong penetration by theHarvard attack
State President P.W. Botha's Nationalists are expected to win next week's election handily (a recent poll gives them 58%), but the violence and bloodshed that are leading up to that...
...majority were allowed to vote, according to a poll by Johannesburg's largest black newspaper, the Sowetan, the winner by a substantial margin would be Nelson Mandela, an imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) whose wife Winnie has become an international symbol of protest. Barred from the ballot, the blacks turned to another kind of action last week in one of the worst outbursts of violence since a state of emergency was declared last June...
...mountain. The lone political warrior towering above his rivals is precisely Hart's position nine months before the Iowa caucuses. It has been Hart vs. a still indistinguishable field ever since New York Governor Mario Cuomo decided to sit out the 1988 race. A Washington Post-ABC News preference poll of Democrats last month gave Hart 46% and Jesse Jackson 14%, with no other active or potential candidate registering above...