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Still, the uproar which has thrown the University in the center of intense media spotlight--ranging from the New York Times to National Public Radio--may now at last subside...
...every student who lied to an interviewerwas thrown out of Harvard, we'd be able to turnthe dormitories into squash courts," he said."People on their applications are encouraged tosay what they think will get them into Harvard...
...maniacally mutters the same phrase over and over. Meanwhile, in the corner of the stage, the demonic figure regularly opens a light-filled porthole, symbolizing an entry into another dimension. After a particularly long, scary moment of darkness filled with the strangled screams of Dr. Willet, this porthole is thrown open. The light is blinding against the darkness...
That last, striking statistic has turned into an N.R.A, rallying cry. Thrown on the defensive, Handgun Control has countered that Florida's rate for all violent crime went up 18% during the same period. And last week the University of Maryland released contradictory numbers: it reported three Florida cities as having experienced rises in gun homicides since 1986, ranging from 3% (Miami) to 74% (Jacksonville...
...Soviet-style ballot-access rules," D'Amato complained in 1988, when George Bush kept Dole off the ballot in most of the state's congressional districts. "The regulations have been liberalized somewhat,'' says Frank Penski, a New York attorney and election-law expert. "You no longer have petition signatures thrown out because someone forgets his middle initial, for instance. But it's still antidemocratic, and with D'Amato against him, Wilson will have to spend about $1 million just to have a decent chance to get on the ballot...