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Punter's teammates may not have turned in world-class efforts, but all five of the Crimson's scorers finished in the top 100. Mike Evans was the second Harvard runner to cross the line and 65th overall. Todd Evans stayed with the race's lead pack for the first few miles, before falling back to 73rd. Rob Benjamin and Skardon Baker (who will captain the Crimson next year) finished 88th and 100th, respectively...
Harvard should get a good bearing on the relative strengths of their potential non-league opponents when it faces Dartmouth Saturday in Hanover, N.H. Traditionally one of the powerhouses in the New England tourney, the Big Green has struggled this year, despite the addition of a world-class coach from Australia...
Precisely. Wynton's musicianship, already on a world-class technical level when he first hit New York, has continued to develop and mature. Though his early influences -- Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard and pre-fusion Miles Davis -- are still discernible in his playing, he is increasingly forging his own sound. Since leaving Blakey to form his own band in 1981, he has released a total of 12 jazz albums, and he has enough material in the can to fill eight or 10 more. On the classical side, he has done five recordings, and is now working on a baroque album with...
Likewise, American society has, in the past generation, abandoned its commitment to providing a world-class system of secondary education. Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos himself calls student performance "dreadfully inadequate." From both the inner cities and the affluent suburbs comes a drumbeat of stories about tin-pot principals who cannot be fired, beleaguered teachers with unmanageable workloads and illiterate graduates with abysmal test scores. If they can possibly afford to, parents choose private or parochial schools, leaving the desperate or destitute in the worst public schools. Teachers, meanwhile, are aware that they are often the most powerful influences...
...disappointed. I certainly expected it to be much closer," Beeferman said in an interview. He blamed his loss on the lack of a forum to discuss the issues. "Cambridge is a world-class city, but there is no meaningful opportunity to discuss anything of substance...