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EXTREMELY HIGH. The pool of non-Harvard females looking for Mr. Right in the form of a handsome, intelligent Harvard boy is extremely large, especially given the number of colleges in the Boston area. Cosmopolitan BU girls are right across the river, driven Babson females are a short shuttle ride away, and then there’s always Wellesley girls…enough said...
HIGH. The undergraduate class is pretty evenly divided into males and females. However, because the female firms have less markets in the Boston-area where they can feasibly hope to hawk their wares, and because of the high threat of substitutes, the Harvard male retains high bargaining power...
...Benjamin L. Brinkopf ’11 toured The Boston Globe facilities as part of the Through The Gates program freshman year. Now, he says he gets his news through The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and The Globe. But Harvard students, many of whom hail from outside the Boston area, largely expressed apathy at the prospect of losing the paper. Anthony C. Speare ’10 said he reads The Salt Lake Tribune when at home in Utah but doesn’t read The Globe. “I don’t identify with Boston...
...with Hanif Atmar, the Afghan Minister of the Interior, who had a dramatic map of his country on display, colored according to threat levels - a broad slash of red (highest level) running across the southern half, bordering Pakistan. Indeed, two-thirds of Helmand province, the prime poppy-growing area, was colored black, which meant it is in Taliban control. Helmand and its neighbor, Kandahar province, is where most of the 17,000 additional U.S. troops are headed. They will arrive just as the poppy crop has been harvested, the moment when many rural Afghans trade their ploughs for rifles...
...case scenario, one in which it had to destroy the war-fighting capacity of multiple adversaries. The Russians have made clear that they want a START replacement to limit delivery systems (intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched missiles and bombers), but American war planners may resist drastic cuts in that area because of concern that the U.S. might lose the ability to deter multiple enemies at once. "China is approaching 200 warheads on ballistic missiles and building a force that the U.S. intelligence community fears could double in the next 15 years," explains Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists...