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...central feature of this equation is a value referred to as the Academic Index (AI) number. Pioneered by former Dean of Harvard College Fred Jewett, the adoption of AI by the Ivy League in the early 1980s was intended to guarantee a level of academic excellence across the board for all sports...
...days, there were rumors that one school admitted someone who was way below standards just to make a team better,” says Fitzsimmons. “The AI system was put in place to hold member institutions accountable...
...each class of recruits for certain sports, as well as across the entire recruiting class in the aggregate, the average AI index must fall within one standard deviation of the AI scores of the rest of the College. Though Fitzsimmons could not release Harvard’s AI index for any particular class year, he did mention that all of Harvard’s athletes fall well within one standard deviation (in other words, a 16 to 17 percent fluctuation) of the total student body...
...encouraged by stepped-up Russian assistance, the Northern Alliance has launched a serious offensive against the Taliban. The Alliance troops have advanced some 30 miles, and are now fighting at the outskirts of the key Taliban-held town of Mazari-aI-Sharif. However, under pressure from Russia - and following Sunday's secret talks in Dushanbe between Russian Chief of the General Staff Anatoli Kvashnin and the new Northern Alliance commander Mohamed Fakhim-Khan, who has replaced the slain Ahmad Shah Masood - the Northern Alliance has changed its previous stand on the U.S. military presence...
...contribution created a whole new realm of science: optical technology. DIED. WANG RUOSHUI, 75, Chinese intellectual banned from publishing in the mainland; in Boston. Wang acted as the senior editor of the People's Daily until he was fired in 1987 for advocating democracy. He and his wife Feng Ai moved to Cambridge last year to take positions as visiting scholars at Harvard University. RETIRED. YVES SAINT LAURENT, 65, famed designer for 40 years and a pioneer of both the pantsuit and the female tuxedo; in Paris (see tribute). RETIRED. GEORGE CAREY, 66, from the position of Archbishop of Canterbury...