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Athletics, though not of the scale of big state colleges, still play a role in student life. Harvard's 1985-86 NCAA runner-up hockey team frequently attracted standing-room-only crowds, but The Game--the annual football clash with Yale--is probably the only other sporting event of comparable magnitude...
Athletics, though not of the scale of big state colleges, still play a role in student life. Harvard's 1985-86 NCAA runner-up hockey team frequently attracted standing-room-only crowds, but The Game--the annual football clash with Yale--is probably the only other sporting event of comparable magnitude...
...result of financial worries. By 1980, one-third of the men eligible for military service had been rejected because of neuroses. Hungary traditionally has had a high suicide rate; it now leads the world with 43.5 self-inflicted deaths per 100,000 people, one-third more than runner-up Denmark...
...immigration into South Africa fell 40%, while the number of those leaving the country rose by one- third. Among the emigres are a disproportionate number of engineers, accountants, educators and physicians, whose departures constitute a serious brain drain. The most popular destination is Britain, where many have relatives. The runner-up is Australia, to which the South Africans have been flocking in such numbers that they have been dubbed the "new boat people." Quite a few who arrived in South Africa from white-ruled Rhodesia have decided to go back, even though the country has since become black-ruled Zimbabwe...
...years by Governor George Wallace, who announced in April that he had "climbed my last political mountain." Having failed to win a majority, Wallace's Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley, who was endorsed by blacks, teachers and labor unions, now faces a runoff later this month against his runner-up, conservative Attorney General Charles Graddick, who has the backing of businessmen and the Ku Klux Klan...