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In many ways, we Harvardians fit Grunwald's description. The Independent survey of late last year found that Harvard is overwhelmingly middle and upper-middle, if not upper, class. We are disproportionately educated in private schools and grew up in or near major cities. And, although the Independent didn't...
Not surprisingly, the national sports media is not at all bothered by this uncertainty, and throw about the phrase like it had all the certainty of a statistic like batting average.
In fact, it is unlikely that had an impact on the shift in rankings. According to "Best Colleges" supplement editor Mel Elfin, himself the recipient of a master's degree here, Harvard's drop can be attributed to a change in the criteria, rather than a decline in the quality...
According to Mel Elfin, the weekly news magazine's special projects editor and executive editor of the annual "America's Best Colleges" supplement, Harvard fell in the rankings because, for the first time, enough schools reported how many of their classes have more than 50 students to make that statistic...
I would have had an easier time remaining calm about all this if the UFO question had been the only disquieting statistic about Perot I'd heard lately. But when I read Kelly's piece, I still hadn't digested a Perot statistic that I'd heard on David Brinkley...