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...student yield category were MIT with a yield of 66.4 percent and Stanford University with a yield of 61.4 percent. \ “We are obviously very pleased to have such a high yield,” William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, dean of admissions and financial aid, said. Fitzsimmons credited the Undergraduate Minority Recruiting Program and Harvard’s Financial Aide Initiative, with helping Harvard attract talented black students, who are highly sought after by top universities. “To produce future leaders you need to do what we have been doing and what...
...race or gender into account in deciding who to hire for a job. It would be foolhardy for the Detroit Police Department to ignore its city’s racial tensions when hiring new officers or for the state to ignore gender when hiring rape counselors to aid victimized citizens...
Many perceived Montealegre to be the United States’ unofficial choice for Nicaraguan president. The U.S. had threatened to pull aid from an Ortega-led government, according to the Associated Press...
...species wouldn't survive if we weren't suckers for what's called neoteny--features like large eyes, an oversize head and a gumdrop nose that signal babyness. We swoon at such traits in people and animals, which is one evolutionary explanation for why we rush to the aid of a lost child or stray puppy instead of, you know, eating them. Stanford University studies showed that the same area of the brain that responds to faces also processes objects like cars and sculptures, explaining the huggable appeal of the VW Beetle and the porcelain cherub...
...part of a wider crackdown on corruption in Latin America. Ortega is also a friend of Bush's hemispheric archfoes, Cuba's communist leader Fidel Castro and Venezuela's radical leftist President Hugo Chavez. The Bush Administration, in fact, has warned that if Ortega wins it may cut U.S. aid to Nicaragua...