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Sabotage (1936) is by far the best of the lesser known British Hitchcocks--those which are shown less frequently than the 39 Steps or The Lady Vanishes. Sabotage Is Hitchcock's version of Conrad's The Secret Agent (not to be confused with Hitchcock's The Secret Agent, which in fact has nothing to do with the Conrad novel, as well as being a bomb to be avoided at all costs despite the claim that it is Hitchcock's favorite of his British films, oft-repeated in unscrupulous advertising.) Sabotage must also be distinguished from Saboteur, an American film Hitchcock...
...lesser scale, cheating and coaching call into question the validity of test scores as a reliable standard of measurement of "aptitude." For $150, the College Skills Center in New York offers a thirty hour course in vocabulary and reading comprehension and claims to improve students' scores by an average of 50 to 100 points. And rumor has it that for something upwards of $200 you can rent a Harvard Law student to take your law boards for you. ETS itself acknowledges about 2,000 cases of cheating each year--that it knows about...
Princeton's triumphs, though, have come against two lesser powers, Columbia and Cornell--regardless of what happened two weeks ago, Cornell is still a lesser, if not the least, power--and when journeying outside the Ivies, the Tigers have fallen prey to both Rutgers and Colgate...
...Radcliffe cross country team sipped the sweet nectar of victory in the women's race of the Greater Boston Championship at Franklin Park yesterday. Meanwhile, the varsity men of Harvard tasted lesser brew with a second-place finish in the meet, which drew seven area colleges...
...electorate in campaign year 1976 is not satisfied with words. Millions of people have tuned out completely. But the earnest and concerned Americans who will turn out on Nov. 2 to choose not only the next President, but also 14 Governors, 33 Senators, 435 Congressmen and a host of lesser officials are scrutinizing the candidates minutely and demanding, above all else, trustworthiness...