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...most of that weight comes from hefty BU Coach Jack Parker whose triumphs and past successes tip the scales in favor of the Terriers in the historical mystique department...
Because of that history, affirmative action, the evaluation by different standards of those individuals who have suffered from America's racial and ethnic tensions, becomes neither insulting nor illegal. In 1978, the Supreme Court, ruling on University of California Regents v. Bakke, upheld measures that give an admissions tip to minorities. In an ideal world, affirmative action should give a poor Black kid and a middle-class white kid the same chance at success, however measured...
...bound gangsters who obeyed the vow of silence when arrested, some of these lieutenants cut deals with the law. Over the past year, 270 so-called pentiti provided unprecedented details of the Mob's workings and helped investigators tighten the net around its chief. According to some sources, the tip that led to Riina's arrest came from at least one such stool pigeon who put more faith in the authorities' promises than in Riina's forgiveness...
...Asia's four rapidly developing "Little Dragons" -- along with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong -- Singapore is the smallest and in some ways the most successful. The former British colony at the tip of the Malay Peninsula only achieved full independence in 1965, yet it boasts Asia's highest living standard after Japan, an average per capita income of $15,000 (about the same as the U.S.) and by far the world's highest per capita cache of foreign reserves...
...Lowest field goal percentage for a game. If the NCAA kept records of that stat, Harvard would have had a real shot at it (so to speak). At the time, the Crimson was in a 2-for-33 groove from the floor, a streak dating back to the opening tip. The score...