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...special recruiting campaign pushed the number of black applicants to the Med School up 20 percent above last year's total, but the number of mainland Puerto Rican and Native American applicants sunk 40 and 50 per cent, respectively. They did not benefit from a special campaign...
...teacher is an old pro, Eddie Waters (Milo O'Shea), whose last laugh seems to have sunk long ago in the still pond of his face. As his students sprint through their routines - ethnic, absurdist one-liners, god-awful - Eddie offers his philosophy of comedy: "A true joke has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation...
...Parise sunk the Boston Bruins' hopes for a win last night with a 50-foot drive early in the third period, keeping the New York Islanders' unbeaten string alive in a 2-2 tie with the Bruins...
...says now that he still can't understand just why it happened. Nor can three incredulous roommates, one of whom said he'd never seen anything like it in his life. "He could hardly speak, his eyes were sunk and hollow, he lost his mental faculties," recounted Joe's once and present roommate. But as all painful experiences tend to end, Joe says he has emerged from the devastating stretch with a lesson well-learned, and a good attitude toward exams...
...with ten minutes or so remaining in the game, the Cornell punter, unheroically entitled Dave Johnson, stood gasping for air inside his 15-yard line. Had the snap from center taken too long, Johnson might have sunk into the stadium and never resurfaced, but the football arrived on time, albeit a trifle high...