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Harvard has made no movement to alter itspolicy of need-blind admissions since the end ofoverlap, and Rudenstine said the University hasnot had to make any changes to adjust. "It's morea question of what happens to the whole system,"he said. "We're more worried about the totalenvironment and future repercussions...
Statesmen preen with the conceit that they can alter the forces of history and cool the passions of humanity with their bold leadership or clever diplomacy, and on occasion they do. But in the case of ingrained historic hatreds, true change can come only from the volition of the peoples involved. For reasons that can be explained by hardheaded circumstance -- though not fully understood -- men wake up one morning exhausted by their enmity and replace it with more rational considerations, a resetting of the psychic gyroscope that finally counts the cost of hatred too high. From that point, peace...
...addition to violating riders' civil liberties, the televisions will alter the character of T stations by driving away musicians and performers, members of the citizens' group said...
Everyone can get into the fraud game. Doctors and lawyers often work in tandem to alter medical records, fake injury reports and file claims for services never rendered. At hospitals, billing clerks discreetly boost the prices of low-ticket items, charging, say, $4.15 for an aspirin that costs 11 cents. "A lot of the billing frauds seem insignificant," says Ed Lueckenhoff, chief of the FBI's health-care-fraud unit. "But if you multiply that times thousands, it adds up to a lot of money. And this is a systematic scheme that is taking place with thousands of patients...
...emphasized that he is the leader of all Catholics. "It is those who disagree with the church who are out of touch," said Pio Cardinal Laghi, the former papal pro-nuncio to the U.S. who , accompanied John Paul on this trip. "We cannot relativize what is absolute. Can we alter the gift God has given us? I think not. That is the message of Denver." Perhaps. But few observers believe the Pope's superstar charisma alone will overcome America's penchant for a pick-and-choose Catholicism...