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Early action is preferable to early decision precisely because it does not force applicants to make the weighty decision about which college to attend before the spring. It succeeds by affording applicants more options and more time to maneuver within the high-stakes admissions game. April??s change did just the opposite: though they were not locked into attending Harvard, this year’s early applicants were cut off from the important option of applying to other commitment-free programs in the winter. This was a particularly significant change for lower-income applicants, who lose more than...
...admissions office openly admits that the sudden drop is a result of April??s change; but they would have us believe that the policy shift somehow made the college admissions circus more relaxed and more easily-navigable for early applicants. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 wasted no time in lauding the new policy’s results as “a return to an era in which people will be much more thoughtful about what they are doing early...
State may be trying, but its efforts on behalf of Yang and the others haven’t been nearly aggressive enough. Moreover, as a conciliatory gesture to Beijing, U.S. diplomats chose not to introduce a resolution condemning China’s abuses at last April??s meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Some good that...
...Meanwhile, three generations of the peculiar Burns family pile into an aging station wagon and slowly and uncertainly make their way to the apartment of their estranged sister, daughter and granddaughter. Along the comic journey, we get to know Joy (played at the perfect acerbic pitch by Patricia Clarkson), April??s hypercritical and sardonic breast cancer-stricken mother who smokes pot and poses nude for her son; Jim (played with understatement by Oliver Platt), April??s eternally tolerant father and the only family member to have drip of genuine expectations and hope for a pleasant Thanksgiving...
Kogut believes that the 1992 march should serve as a model for April??s gathering. “We marched, we organized, and remember what happened in 1992. We elected a pro-choice President and preserved the fundamental rights to privacy and equality,” she said to the enthusiastic audience...