From: marina@sapir.us   
      
   If I understand it correctly, you just need to rank the items. Assign   
   every item "number of items below it" minus "number of items above   
   it". You will get the statistics called U-statistics. It will give you   
   the rank of each item. Then, you just order all items by their ranks.   
      
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