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...attested by his straight set, 45-minute routing by Yannick Noah last week on his favorite surface, clay. Borg's return to top-flight tennis will require both time and match play against his real competitors (Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, and Jimmy connors), and not against satellite stars whom he would meet in qualifying rounds...
...instead of facing a top-flight hurler like Columbia's Kurt Lundgren or Princeton's Bob Holly in the opener, the Crimson will battle MIT's batting-tee pitching staff boasting 24 runs allowed in two regular season games...
...women's studies will come to Harvard is if women's studies is upgraded to a degree-granting committee-Harvard is now the glaring exception in American higher education in its refusal to create a major in women's studies. Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and many other top-flight institutions already recognize women's studies Yale. Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and many other top-flight institutions already recognize women's studies as a legitimate field of inquiry. A degree-granting body would allow-indeed, encourage-interested students to integrate knowledge on the subject...
...Dewey Spangler, a top-flight newspaper columnist a la Alsop who wields more power than any single senator, a boyhood chum of Corde's who turns up on swing through Eastern Europe. As a kid, Spangler was inebriated with Swinburne, Wilde, Nietzsche. Now he is slick, in analysis, still a bit cowed by Corde, and at the same time vindictive...
...sophomore Karl Illig and freshman Jennifer Goldberg is the more apparent reason for Harvard's achievements. "The most successful programs are the ones that recruit consistently and we've been very lucky lately," Walker says, adding that he depends on the many academic opportunities he can offer to draw top-flight athletes like Watson, as well as less-talented divers who could benefit from the program...