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...reprehensible as Harvard's legacy policy is, we can do little but shake our heads and curse as long as Harvard students remain content to accept a spoils system as a substitute for fair and equitable admissions...
...though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand erupted in gritty geysers. Shock waves, pulsing outward for hundreds of miles, wrecked boats in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, cracked masonry in Cincinnati, and caused church bells to peal and buildings to shake as far away as New York City and Boston...
...Crimson must shake its lethargy by Saturday, when it hosts Cornell at Cumnock Field. The game marks a return to natural grass for the Crimson, which has played its last two contests on unfamiliar artificial turf...
...several nationally televised interviews, Kiam also threatened to shake up the team's management for mishandling the situation. However, the commissioner has instructed him not to take any action until an investi- gation was conducted...
Wise too was ready to move. He was eager to shake the small-town dust from his shoes and gain entry to Denver's society. One of his first acts was to hire a public relations firm to burnish his image and put a speechwriter on the Silverado payroll. "I remember him standing up in white tie and tails and pledging $100,000 of Silverado's money to the Denver Symphony," recalls an associate. Chuck Henning, former executive director of the Colorado Savings & Loan League, notes that "Wise was image-conscious and was going through all the proper steps...