Word: semis
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Evans said last week he thought alumni recruiting was less enthuiastic this year because the DeFunis case had over-sensitized alumni about the "reverse discrimination myth," which he said propagates the idea that "semi-literate blacks are being accepted at the expense of white geniuses...
...collegiate teams were awarded one point each time one of their members advanced. Though first- and second-ranked Peter Blasier and Bill Kaplan were both eliminated in the third round of the A flight competition, fifth- and sixth-ranked Peter Havens and Jeff Wiegand were not defeated until the semi-finals of the C flight, gaining valuable points toward the team title...
Third- and fourth-ranked Dick Cashin and Fred Fisher also made it to the semi-finals in the B tournament. Undefeated Fisher said last Tuesday that he has been looking forward to facing Cashin in the finals of that flight for two years...
...Fisher was fried in the semi-finals by Princeton's hot number-three man Hollis Russell. In the finals, it was Cashin alone against Fisher's dream-shatterer...
...50th anniversary issue didn't exactly take readers by surprise. For weeks there had been rumblings that it was coming, that this was the big year. In early February, veteran New Yorker writer Brendan Gill published a thick volume called Here at The New Yorker, a sort of semi-official biography of the magazine. Every review carefully noted that it was a 50th birthday, ode to The New Yorker, and in the reviews, the magazine enjoyed an almost embarrassing free ride. Critics tripped over each other to salute The New Yorker's prestige, to rhapsodize about its cerebral humor...