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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...schools can no longer expect robust returns on their endowments, so they are struggling to refurbish their capital. Meantime, the days of bulging classrooms are long gone. The 1965-75 baby bust led to a 10% dip in the number of college-age students in the 1980s; the head count will plummet a further 25% by the mid-1990s. The ability of institutions to simply crank up tuition and fees has also hit a ceiling. Last spring Princeton scaled back a projected 6.9% hike in tuition, room and board to 6.7%, leaving a still daunting annual bill per student...
...Flaherty knows bad movies too; as Count Floyd, the seedy late-night host on the old SCTV comedy show, he used to introduce dreck like Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses. Playing the incompetent mad scientist in Maniac Mansion, Flaherty again shows a flair for sweet dimwittedness. Another SCTV veteran, Eugene Levy, is co-creator of this twisted update of The Addams Family, which was inspired by, of all things, a computer game...
Harvard's aggressive play dominated the remainder of the period. With the ball up front for the duration, Reilly was forced to make only two saves in the half. But she made them count...
Democratic gubernatorial nominee John R. Silber can count on the support of at least two Harvard students--the two that comprise the membership of Harvard's newest and smallest political group, Students for Silber...
...council uses a variation of the proportional representation system to tally votes. That system insures that second and third preference votes still count...