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...Their argument, if not their reasoning, had plenty of supporters: Even if the newly uncovered evidence contained no exculpatory evidence, some reasoned it would be safer for Matsch to err on the side of caution - especially in a case so rife with anti-government, anti-establishment tensions...
...closest any other Crimson athlete came to winning an individual event was junior Kobie Fuller, who took second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 48.17 seconds in the final. For the second time in three weeks, he came up short of Yale's Jason Rife, who won in 47.75 seconds...
Sophomore John Meeker also performed well, taking the 100-meter dash in 10.89 seconds. In the 200-meter dash, he fell short of beating the league's best in the event-Yale's Jason Rife-but still put up time of 21.85 seconds, one of the best times in the Ivies this year...
...years, the communist government embarked on a major resettlement campaign: it banned collective land ownership, declared traditional tribal lands state property available for redistribution and forbade nomadic slash-and-burn farming practices, forcing hill tribes to settle down. Complaints of corruption in doling out the land have been rife here as elsewhere in the country. In the 1990s coffee helped fuel a 12% average growth rate in Dak Lak, encouraging more settlers to flock to the region. Almost all were members of the Kinh majority, which makes up 90% of Vietnam's population. Dak Lak's population has nearly doubled...
...SATS may not be perfect, but colleges need something besides high school transcripts to evaluate students. Two schools at which I taught were rife with grade inflation. Now I teach in college, and after a couple of weeks it's obvious to me which students' high school grades were fudged. They usually receive poor college grades and often end up dropping out because they can't handle the work. No, the SATS aren't perfect, but to admit students solely on the basis of grades earned in secondary school would turn into an unqualified disaster. CANDACE MURDOCK Rome...