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APRIL 22--Harvard returned to its winning ways, steamrolling Brown, 13-4. The offense, stagnant against Loyola, returned to life and stung the Bears on multiple occasions...
True enough, some of the state's educational accomplishments have been oversold; there are negative statistics too. The much touted competency test was not difficult, and teachers could take it again and again until they finally passed. Scores achieved by Arkansas high schoolers on standard college tests have remained stagnant, and a dismaying 60% of those who do get into college require remedial instruction once they arrive. But no one would deny that the state's schools have improved and that Clinton deserves much of the credit...
...Harvard knows how to get it. Historically, sex at Harvard has been as hard to get as an A from Harvey C. Mansfield, but the problem seems to be more acute now. What is it about Harvard that makes romance so elusive? Why does this campus seem so sexually stagnant...
...closer look at average Harvard students and our environment shows that stagnant sex life is the logical outcome of our particular circumstances...
...capitalist economies of the West grew organically over centuries. It was totally unrealistic for anyone to expect that Eastern Europe could demolish the communist system and build free-market democracies in two -- or even 10 -- years. Yet many people in Eastern Europe thought that by getting rid of the stagnant and oppressive communist system, they could enjoy Western prosperity overnight, and their governments failed to disabuse them of that idea...