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...Crimson (10-2 overall, 5-0 Ivy league), are currently ranked eighth in the nation, and are most certain to rise in the poll. The team's two wins, combined with Princeton's upset over number one ranked Penn State, should move Harvard as high as a fifth or sixth rank. More importantly, the team has virtually clinched a birth in the NCAA tournament meaning they will have a chance to defend last year's crown...
Tennis players compete nearly every day and wear out early, but here is Bjorn Borg, 34, the five-time Wimbledon champ, beginning a comeback. There seems to be no physiological reason that Borg, a burnout case at 26, couldn't rank in the Top 10 again. Tennis is much faster now, mostly because of big, composite rackets, and so far Borg intends to use his old wooden relics. But doubters may recall that he re-made his game once before, when he added a big serve in 1978 after he had won Wimbledon a couple of times. Tennis comebacks aren...
...coming down on the easy-pickens side of a political issue that does not directly concern it, Hillel's coordinating committee is making Hillel look like "a political, P.C. hack group." As a matter of fact, the committee's actions last week have upset many of Hillel's rank-and-file...
...some scholars, the failure of economic theory to explain existing discrimination has unleashed a debate about comparable worth--the notion that all workers should be paid the same salary for jobs that are comparably similar in expertise, importance and rank...
...discipline must come from rank-and-file police with courage enough to break the so-called Blue Code, which prohibits one officer from ratting on another. A few encouraging signs exist that some officers are abandoning the tradition of blind loyalty to one another in misconduct cases. In Houston more than half of all complaints now come from other officers. During the King beating, two California highway-patrol officers reportedly took down the names of those involved from their breast-pocket name tags. They have since testified to investigators...