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...perfected this technique in the later 1970s when leading a drive against an academic survey conducted by two sociology professors, Seymour M. Lipset and Everett C. Ladd. The study, to rank the nation's leading schools in a variety of disciplines, asked some 9000 professors to complete a questionnaire which Lang condemned as biased and overly subjective. He wrote to the authors, mobilized opposition among colleagues, protested to national education bodies about the study and found himself refereeing mail campaigns on both sides of the issue...
Harvard's costs for undergraduates will rank as the highest in the Ivies, coming in just over Dartmouth's $14,050 and Yale's $13,950. However, MIT will cost $14,400, officials said...
Most attempts to reform Massachussetts voting laws--which rank amongst the strictest in the country--have not met with such success...
...Epstein said the report did not try to rank the Houses or focus particular attention on any one of the Houses. "For us it was a project in contemporary social history, not an explosive political questioning of Harvard...
Newcomers, on the other hand, must wait their turn with a patience that tries both talent and dreams. The top rank is tough to crack, for the edge always goes to the headliners. Tiffany Chin, who at 16 was competing brilliantly in her first Olympics, could bask in a strong showing while cheerfully accepting the virtual impossibility of a medal. She had finished twelfth in the compulsory figures, and even with a runaway victory in the free skating while others faltered badly, a silver medal was the best she could have won. Said Chin: "I skated good figures...