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...floor score" for all state university applicants to try add boost standards. The minimal requirement: a student had to score 250 on either the math or verbal component of the SAT. Even so, state laws set aside a number of places for disadvantaged students who can't qualify. "That ain't much of a minimum," allows a state Board of Regents official...

Author: By Am E. Schwartz, | Title: Breaking Away | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...according to the Class of , it just ain't so. The Crimson's poll of about ercent of the class concluded that large majos approve of Harvard academically and soy. Students downplayed widely publicized of rampant pre-professionalism. Seventy- percent said they were "satisfied with Harvard academically." A similar proportion said that ite Harvard's lack of structured student fac contact, they had found professors generally essible undergraduates make an effort to them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Life | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...Down Under accent down pat, but the rest will have to fake it. Rachel, who was raised on an Oxfordshire farm, hopes a mid-Atlantic cadence will carry her through. Besides, says she, "Americans can't tell the difference between Australian and English accents anyway." Cheeky lass, ain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 12, 1982 | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...hard on you?" one juror asked the foreman, Jackson, the next morning. "No, it ain't hard," he replied. "Maybe someone else should do it," said one member, pointing out Jackson's stutter. The retired janitor agreed. He was promptly replaced by Coffey, at 22 the youngest juror, who was now firmly convinced of Hinckley's innocence. The deliberations began to stumble toward a conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insane on All Counts | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...little off, or whether this poem or that one didn't make sense. He shot those people, he shot them on purpose, he planned the whole thing out. He should be punished." When the rest disagreed, she shouted: "What gives here! The man is just a manipulator. Ain't nothing wrong with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insane on All Counts | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

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