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...admit I shy away from motels that are obviously run by Middle Easterners. In my many nights on the road, I have found them to be less clean and poorly maintained. My favorite motel went downhill fast when it was taken over by Middle Easterners. Writer Hilary Hylton should have talked to a few travelers before calling us prejudiced against foreigners...
...study of statistical trends of 30 institutions—not including Harvard—over 11 years found significant differences in such factors as application numbers, admit rate, and yield when a school’s rankings changed even as much as one place. For example, the study showed that an increase by one ranking could make an admit rate decrease by 0.399 percent and a yield increase by 0.171 percent...
...Harvard consistently finds itself in the top few slots in these rankings, and variations within these positions do not seem to affect applicant numbers, or admit and yield rates...
Harvard came in as the hardest college to get into—with an admit rate last year of slightly under 9 percent—and as the school with the best college library. It was also featured on the list of Best Northeastern Colleges, Colleges With a Conscience, and America's Best Value College. The College also came in top ten for best college newspaper and most politically active students and top twenty for dorm quality and how studious students tend...
...atheist position is simpler. In 1948, Hitchens ventures, Teresa finally woke up, although she could not admit it. He likens her to die-hard Western communists late in the cold war: "There was a huge amount of cognitive dissonance," he says. "They thought, 'Jesus, the Soviet Union is a failure, [but] I'm not supposed to think that. It means my life is meaningless.' They carried on somehow, but the mainspring was gone. And I think once the mainspring is gone, it cannot be repaired." That, he says, was Teresa...