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...exceptionally well-qualified, and that legacy status only comes into play to break a tie between otherwise equally qualified applicants. Although most of us can name one or two examples that call that claim into question, let's take Harvard at its word and imagine the best possible scenario, in which legacy status breaks a tie between two applicants whose qualifications are otherwise absolutely identical...
...this scenario, the child of an upper middle-class Harvard graduate, born near the top of the social heap, gets preference over someone who struggled up from the bottom...
While this scenario might be a bit far-fetched today, it is not too far from the actual truth. Most of the secretaries who run the machines say the bulk of fax messages are sent within Harvard, from one department to another...
...would Bush play such an opportunity? A G.O.P. dream scenario runs like this: Bush (obviously) avoids choosing a trustee of Planned Parenthood, but he does select a new Justice whose position is ambiguous enough to generate a mini-outcry from the pro-lifers. Then the former wimp sticks by his man (or woman), stands up to the antiabortion lobby and creates a political triumph that dwarfs even Panama...
...third quarter of 1989, up 18.7% from the previous year. Says Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto: "It's very unlikely that home prices will rush ahead in the next two years. It's not a crash scenario, but I don't see prices being pushed much higher." In the topsy- turvy world of the '90s, even the Golden State will endure a changing fortune...