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Princeton and Harvard both earned 14 out of a possible 16 first-place votes from a media voting representing each of the eight Ivy League schools. IVY LEAGUE PRESEASON W. BASKETBALL POLL Rank Team Points 1. HARVARD 125 2. Brown 104 3. Dartmouth 97 4. Princeton 75 5. Yale 71 6. Cornell 52 7. Columbia 30 8. Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Preseason Basketball Polls Released | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...number of students are happy with these rankings," he says. "They would prefer me to rank the struggles of the destitute sick over problems of students. They respect that...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

...change that means the most to critics of education is that Stanford's test scores are on the rise--particularly in mathematics, where the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders were, respectively, in the state's 77th, 74th and 66th percentile rank. Another measure of the school's success is its desirability: four years ago, the school accepted every student who applied; this year 200 students had to be turned away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW TO WELL | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Moreover, if we accept your classification of China as "truly evil" how should we then describe rouge states such as Libya, Iraq and North Korea, to name but a few, which by any objective measure must rank much higher on the Most Sinister Nation scale than does China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jiang Wrongly Demonized | 10/21/1997 | See Source »

...empty suit with a famous name," says Ken Paff, chief organizer for Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Carey's main base of political support within the union. But Hoffa is wired for a fight this time. He has spent the past two months traveling the U.S., rallying the rank and file and invoking theories of conspiracy. "The government doesn't want me to run," he snaps. "They want to control the Teamsters. When we take over, we will reinvigorate this union and change its course forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HOFFA RISES AGAIN | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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