Word: pools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zimmerman has always found success in the pool. At St. Louis University Higher School he led his team to a 65-game winning streak and three consecutive state championships, earning all-state nominations in each year. When the question of college arose, Zimmerman shied away from the big-name water polo schools, deciding instead to attend Harvard, following his brother, Jeff, who graduated in 1994. While the polo program "played a role" in the choice, it was the university as a whole that eventually tipped the scales. "When I visited the campus, it was hard not to love...
Elsewhere he compares different styles of racism. The U.S., with its predominantly Northern European traditions, erects distinct color barriers even though its population has been paddling in a richly mixed gene pool for more than three centuries. By contrast, Brazil is what Cose calls a "pigmentocracy," where the national myth of racial harmony masks a system in which lighter skins enjoy higher status and rewards...
...number of candidates who otherwise would have been in our applicant pool have already been accepted to [an early admission school] and can't apply to our school," McGrath-Lewis said...
Despite the diminished applicant pool, Harvard admissions officers still contend that the quality of applicants this year is extremely strong...
...victims this time were Cornell and Dartmouth, both of which struggled to tread in the Blodgett Pool water. The (Big) Crimson improved its record to (12-1) in defeating the Big Green...