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Slightly more than 100 applicants each year score above 750 on each College Board Achievement Test and SAT section and rank at the top of their high school classes, making them clearly "admissible on the basis of academics alone...
...approval rating on general leadership ability. Not only is he far in front of Mitterrand's 38%, but he also leads Premier Fabius, 39, and former Premier Raymond Barre, 61, the most popular conservative opposition figure, both of whom draw some 50%. Rocard, whose standing among the Socialist rank and file had never equaled his public ratings, has emerged in recent months as an influential force within the party. Rocard, concedes one Mitterrandiste deputy, "has attracted a lot of discontented Socialists of all sorts, even a number in the left wing of the party, simply as a means of protesting...
...easy to locate the dead: as soon as the rains stopped, the Puerto Rican sun quickly baked the gooey clay rock-hard. By week's end only 38 bodies had been recovered. But Ponce Mayor Jose Dapena predicted that the death toll could eventually rise to 500. That would rank not only as Puerto Rico's worst single disaster in this century but as the most destructive landslide in U.S. history...
...Asked to rank campus art museums, Rosenbaum says, "Harvard and Yale--then you take a little bit of breath--Princeton, Oberlin and then one is constantly surprised. You can find great treasures anywhere...
George Mason might hold the higher rank, but you won't be finding the Crimson kow-towing to the Lady Patriots...