Word: poolfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the new policy enacted in December 1996,Boston Latin assigned 50 percent of the placesbased on merit determined by entrance examinationresults and grade point average. School officialsallocated the remaining places on "flexibleracial/ethnic guidelines," determined by thepercentage of each of five ethnic and racialcategories in the applicant pool...
...entered the week with a 12-game lead in my season-long football pool and now that I'm leaving it with that same lead intact, I've got the men in stripes to thank and to blame...
Cool your salivating maws, my dear Ad Board readers. I'm hip to Harvard's puritanical no-gambling policy and wouldn't presume to incriminate myself in print. I did not have financial relations with this pool. But let's just say I stand to win a cool 500 brownie points if I can maintain my position atop the standings for the rest of the season...
...weeks from now, when I'm sweating out the Panthers-Colts game because those 500 brownie points hang in the balance, don't think I'll forget how the officials tainted those two games. If I should come out on the short end, I suppose I'll protest the pool and argue for a revision of the standings...
What does the evergrowing pool of adult videogamers want? Why, an update of their youthful obsessions, of course. Given the success of Frogger and other remakes of classic arcade games, a revamped Asteroids is a sure win. In the new version, available on both PC and PlayStation, you still get to blow space rocks to smithereens--but now you do it in vivid...