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...gone so far as to say that Harvard would revoke—if it had to—the early action admission of a student otherwise bound by an early decision admission to Yale if the applicant tried to wiggle out of his early decision commitment in order to accept a place at Harvard...
Some professors, such as MIT evolutionary psychologist Steven T. Pinker, gained national attention with their decisions to accept Harvard’s offer...
Summers said that the trend of granting tenure to more faculty from within is partly responsible for this year’s impressive yield. With roots in the University and the Boston area, such professors are often more likely to accept Harvard’s offer...
...appalling that an extraordinary institution like Harvard would accept money from an individual who does not condemn outrageously slanderous speech and libelous writings promulgated by those representing institutions that he founded and can control. Harvard would never accept money from an individual who has connections with the Ku Klux Klan or other racist organizations that demean women or homosexuals. So why is it acceptable for Harvard to accept money from a man who does not recognize the legitimacy of an entire nation, religion, culture, tradition and people? During a time of rising anti-Jewish rhetoric within Europe, the Arab world...
...Still, those were the terms set by the U.S., and the antiwar Europeans had no pragmatic alternative but to accept them. (Syria, the fifteenth Council member, simply recalled its ambassador and absented itself from the vote to as to avoid having to endorse Western occupation of an Arab land.) In their acceptance, however, at least some of the Europeans are quietly adopting an attitude of "you-broke-it, you-own-it" - an expectation that Washington's ill-starred efforts thus far to manage the postwar transition and the mounting danger of chaos may yet produce a costly lesson...