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Harvard has the third-stiffest admissions criteria in the country, following only Amherst College and Brown. It's 17-per-cent acceptance rate requires a lot of cutting in the admissions committee...
...most feared hit men in the Chicago Mafia. Police suspect that Aleman was involved in 22 murders, including one in which the victim was ripped three times through the neck with a broomstick. But none of Aleman's 20 previous arrests were for murder, and the stiffest sentence he had ever received was a three-year probation in 1971 for falsifying a mortgage application...
...going to need nine good matches to win tomorrow," Lundy said yesterday. And then 18 more after that, if the racquetmen are to stand up to their stiffest challenge of the year...
Harvard expects its stiffest diving competition from two fronts--Dartmouth and host Cornell. Early predictions show John Evans of the Big Green and Paul Steck of the Big Red providing the Big Threats...
...duty in any one bureau is about three years. The reason: to bring a fresh eye and newly tuned ear to their reporting. In the past few months a full dozen of them have switched locale and sometimes climate, language and hemisphere as well. David Aikman probably faces the stiffest challenge at the moment -establishing a new Eastern European bureau in a 100-year-old farmhouse in West Berlin. He calls it "a forced learning process in the simultaneous skills of driver, messenger, clerk, telex operator and office manager." Aikman went to Berlin after four years in Hong Kong. Both...