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...report states that at higher-quality institutions [such as Harvard], more students will have premarital sex than at lesser institutions...
Harvard's track team rewrote record books from Boston to Manhattan over the weekend, as its two-mile relay team set a meet record less than two seconds off the world mark at Madison Square Garden while the Crimson smashed four lesser marks to eke out a slim victory in the Greater Boston Championships at Northeastern...
Managers of mutual funds and, to a lesser degree, pension funds are operating so exuberantly that in this year's first month volume rose 62% on the American Stock Exchange and went up 20% on the New York Stock Exchange. Trouble is, the exchanges and the back offices of brokerage firms have not expanded and automated fast enough to keep up with the increase. In the resulting snarl of tape and paper, countless buyers have either received the wrong confirmation slips and stock certificates or failed to receive any at all. As they struggle to straighten out the mess...
Married. Roman Polanski, 34, Polish director of many a chilling and fascinating psychological film (Knife in the Water, Cul-de-Sac); and Sharon Tate, 24, one of the boozy, bosomy denizens in The Valley of the Dolls, also featured in one of Polanski's lesser efforts, The Fearless Vampire Killers; he for the second time; in London...
...easy for the City. In a real sense, the manager's office is the center of the City administration; the interim manager, who is not in the best of health, may have a difficult time preparing the budget, making any needed appointments, and doing the thousand and one lesser tasks required to run a City...