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...early decision programs) have traditionally attracted fewer minority students and fewer financial aid applicants. Many less affluent schools do not have adequate counseling facilities to help students prepare to meet "early" deadlines. Harvard and other colleges are fully aware of this fact and will not foreclose the opportunity to admit outstanding students simply because they do not have the chance to apply early...
While it is true that our yield (the percentage of those choosing to matriculate) on Early Action candidates is lower than the essentially 100 percent yields guaranteed for binding early decision programs, it is more important for us to be confident that students we admit early are making better informed decisions about their college choice and financial aid options. Obtaining higher yields may have been part of the motivation for colleges that adopted binding early decision programs, but our yield of approximately 90 percent for Early Action students seems a scant difference given the gains students receive in return...
...reconstructing the "chain of possession" surrounding the documents: who had access to them, when and for how long? Investigators told TIME they have not formally excluded other possibilities--that, for example, a secret-documents clerk innocently botched the document logs or misplaced the material and is now afraid to admit it. Or perhaps the papers were hidden by a disgruntled foreign-service officer. The FBI is moving aggressively on all fronts. Until the facts show otherwise, agents must assume the worst--that the material was stolen to be handed over to a foreign power. A full-scale, top-priority...
...illegal sexual harassment? Even after the Supreme Court's ruling, Oncale might not convince a jury that Sundowner and its men discriminated against him. Scalia's brief opinion merely allows the possibility for the first time. Sundowner attorney Harry Reasoner says his clients deny the shower incident. They admit to roughhousing with Oncale, but they didn't single him out for special abuse, Reasoner says. "All males who go onto an offshore platform are subject to a kind of hazing." Reasoner also points out that Oncale could have brought state assault charges against the men but went for a federal...
...never root for one team over another because I generally don't care who wins. But I admit I do feel vindicated by the Princeton University basketball team's 26-and-1 record and its rank of No. 8 in the country. I confess I wouldn't be all that disappointed if the team wins a couple of games in the NCAA championships that start this week. But only because it might teach a lesson to the guys I play pickup basketball with on Tuesday nights...