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...grade inflation. He said the same thing in 1993 in Harvard Magazine, at a time when the SAT gap between black admits and white admits was larger than it is now. Mansfield is very savvy, so he must have had some idea that his recent comments would raise a row. They did, courtesy of the e-mail discussion list of the Black Student Association (BSA). Several students, in delightful vituperation, wrote screeds protesting the fact that they even heard the comments, as if such discourse ought never to be uttered. (That's hogwash; we're in college; we're going...
could win the meet MVP honors for an incredible fourth year in a row. Gyorffy has gotten a late start on the year, as she took time off to compete for her native Hungary in the Sidney Olympics. She appears to be in good form, however having qualified for the most recent World Championships with a 1.96-meter jump this past weekend. It was also far and away the best collegiate jump this year...
Peljto, who has been the star for the Crimson this season, scored a career-high 27 points in last weekend's overtime loss to Yale and was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the sixth time this season and the third week in a row...
After falling to Princeton, 3-2, two weeks ago, the No. 3 Harvard women's hockey team has defeated three top-ten teams in a row for the first time this season...
...What started this, essentially, was a row between Turkey's prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, and its president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Ecevit is a classic Turkish machine politician, who's used to looking the other way at corruption in order to hang on to power. Sezer, meanwhile, was put up by the three-part coalition that was in power as a puppet, someone who would go along to get along. But like a Supreme Court Justice who doesn't vote the way you want, he's turned into a reformer and a real thorn in the side of those in power...