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Dreaming on--of the half-dozen recruits who will find places on the roster next year. Of the Beanpot. Of the ECAC Tournament. Of the NCAA finals. Dreaming of goals, dozens of them, instead of homeruns...
Gore's latest failure proved terminal: he suspended campaigning Thursday, though he will attempt to hold his delegates together by remaining a nominal candidate. Gore was a star of Super Tuesday just six weeks earlier, but his erratic performance since then seemed to eliminate him even from the roster of vice-presidential prospects...
...going to send his kid to Harvard or Yale," Cingiser says. "I don't necessarily think that the education he'll get at those schools is superior than the one he'll get here, but the prestige is greater. Last year there were 11 kids on Harvard's roster who we recruited and there were no kids on our roster whom Harvard recruited...
Mirror image. George Bush settled down with his aides last week for a leisurely review of his list of vice-presidential prospects, which included such usual suspects as Governors George Deukmejian and Tom Kean. Then Bush surprised his advisers with an unexpected addition to the roster: Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson. The homespun Simpson is well liked by his peers and above all loyal, an attribute that Bush has stated is his most important criterion...
...higher education. The issue: Should students be required to read a fixed core of works on Western civilization, and, if so, what should be in it? The heart of the dispute at Stanford has been whether to amend or remove from the university's freshman Western culture courses a roster of 15 prescribed classics. Many scholars regard those works, ranging from Homer and Dante to Darwin and Freud, as part of a sacred canon. But revisionists, including many blacks, Hispanics and women, want to build a new, theme-based program rather too cleverly called CIV (short for Culture, Ideas...