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...what may have been the longest single piece of writing ever to appear on The Crimson's opinion page, officials from the admissions office of Harvard and Radcliffe yesterday assailed The Crimson's recent series of editorials attacking Harvard's policies of preferential treatment for recruited athletes and children of alumni...
...fact that capitalist foreigners were visiting at all suggests that the world's last great communist dinosaur is beginning to stir. As national alliances have been radically redrawn over the past year, the longest-running dictatorship in the world has found itself increasingly abandoned by the two patrons, Moscow and Beijing, that it has always managed to play off against each other. Pyongyang's sense of vulnerability was only sharpened when the Soviets, who account for 50% of North Korea's trade, established full diplomatic relations with South Korea in September. China, meanwhile, enjoys $3 billion a year of trade...
Carlson's jump-started campaign was boosted by the fact that incumbent Rudy Perpich, Minnesota's longest-serving Governor, had outlasted his welcome after 10 years in the statehouse. Carlson, a defender of abortion rights, also attracted pro-choice voters who would have had nowhere to turn in a contest between Grunseth and Perpich, both of whom oppose abortion. Observes Kris Sanda, a Carlson adviser: "When they were faced with Rudy Perpich and Jon Grunseth, people started saying, 'Good Lord, is this all there is to choose from in Minnesota...
...think four years is bad, try 32. Dean Maher reported the record holder for longest grad school enrollment was registered for 32 years. Currently, there is a student who is in his 24th year of study, Maher said. He did not release names...
Page's yardage total broke the Big Green record set by David Clark in 1988 against Penn. And Page's 79-yard dash to set up a Big Green field goal was the longest Dartmouth run from scrimmage since Clark ripped off 97-yarders against Princeton and...you guessed it...Harvard that same season...