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...office, the 30,000-strong applicant pool for Harvard’s Class of 2014—give or take a few hundred—does not include transfer applicants. Repeated (second or multiple-time applicants) can be ignored because they are nearly negligible in number. From this pool, around 5,000 are international citizens. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said these 5,000 students were “foreign by citizenship but any number may have applied from the United States...
...reported killed, and more than 150 injured in clashes between soldiers and the protesters known as the Red Shirts for the color they wear, as tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets and some live rounds were fired on a major avenue in the old quarter of Bangkok. Hostilities erupted around midday after about 300 Red Shirts attempted to breach the walls and lines of troops surrounding the First Regiment army base. The base is located on an avenue adjacent to the Phan Fa Bridge, one of two major intersections the protesters have seized in the capital and occupied during...
After two days of being pushed around and humiliated by anti-government protesters, Thailand's security forces began pushing back on Saturday. It was a day that saw the first bloodshed since the protests began in Bangkok on March 12. But by mid-evening both sides had called on their forces to retreat. It was unclear who held the upper hand in what is becoming a battle for survival by the current Thai government...
...measures step by step. Protesters countered by every means including the use of bombs and real bullets." Local television reported that one foreign journalist had been injured by a bullet and was hospitalized. Most injuries before nightfall appeared to have been from rubber bullets and tear gas and blows. Around 6 p.m., helicopters began dropping tear gas on protesters at the Phan Fa intersection...
...meantime, the legal clouds around the case appear to be growing thicker. On Wednesday, April 7, Israeli prosecutors arrested Olmert's close confidant and former lawyer Uri Messer on suspicion of helping to collect bribes, obstructing justice and laundering money in conjunction with an unnamed suspect. The local media are barred by a court order from revealing the identity of the suspect. The Jerusalem Post ran an article with the headline "Uri Messer Is the Link." The police are calling the Messer case "one of the most serious corruption affairs in the state's history." (See how Olmert succeeded Ariel...