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...some high school seniors that they were being granted the privilege of spending the next four years of their lives in Cambridge. At the last minute, those with the power to decide these things decided that a hundred of these bright-eyed teen-agers were not up to snuff, and so a hundred of those hefty packages were taken apart and replaced with a hundred envelopes, all filled with letters starting with the words "we're sorry...
Good thing Martins was up to snuff, because Cornell came out of its gate ready to bump as many bodies as need be to stay alive and force a Sunday finale...
There's no point in my rehashing the arguments over whether or not linguistics is an autonomous discipline and whether or not the Harvard Linguistics Departments is up to snuff. Most of the arguments for eliminating the Linguistics Department, such as the supposed "tremendous linguistic strengths" in other departments, are completely specious...
There is still plenty of emotion left in these Crimson skaters. And they are mature enough not to let one devastating loss snuff out that life. Surprisingly, after the Monday dust is polished away, Harvard finds itself poised perfectly for a stretch run for glory and--dare one even say it--a possible national championship...
...here's what you get for your trouble. The movie is attacked as "snuff TV" by the national trade paper Advertising Age; NBC is lambasted for contributing to the problem of TV violence; the show is even denounced sight unseen by a U.S. Senator (Democrat Kent Conrad of North Dakota). It's enough to drive a programmer back to Saved by the Bell: The College Years...