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...when you are an unstoppable force in basketball, selfishness too is a virtue. Jordan also knows this, and that is why he stopped and popped with 3.4 seconds left in Game 3 to tip the contest into overtime. That is what the best player in the game is supposed...
Instead, after reviewing admissions in the years from 1979-1989, the department agreed with what Harvard had argued all along--that Asian-Americans are admitted at a lower rate than whites because the College gives a preference, or a "tip," to children of alumni and recruited athletes, groups that includes few Asian-Americans...
...Education Department reported that it found no evidence to substantiate Harvard's claims that Asian-Americans receive a special "ethnic" read, as well as an affirmative action tip, in the admissions process...
...arrests came after police received a tip that Kessler was planning to escape aboard a Soviet military aircraft. German authorities, under pressure to bring former Communist leaders to justice, were embarrassed last March when Erich Honecker, the former party chief, was spirited away to Moscow by the Soviets, ostensibly for health reasons...
...lend him $3.5 million to pay his bills. Appropriately enough, Fred did so by purchasing that amount in gambling chips from one of his son's casinos. Even as Trump's fortunes continued to decline, though, the bankers tried to look the other way, loath to tip him into bankruptcy by cracking down...