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...woman Spoor barely knew - was the first to post a congratulatory message on Spoor's Facebook wall. Spoor realized her mistake and deleted the message, but by then it was too late; her future in-laws had seen the message, and the status update, and called to ask what was going on. How do you explain to your family that you told the Internet you just got engaged before you told them? "It caused a huge fight," she says...
Shawna L. Sinnott ’10, a Marine ROTC midshipman, said she believed the results showed that the current generation is better able to distinguish individual ROTC members from the political issue of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—the controversial policy that bars openly gay individuals from serving in the armed forces...
...waitlist spots are offered, attributing the high figure to the College’s financial aid program, which the University has pledged to honor despite an “unprecedented economic downturn.” According to Fitzsimmons, the number of families who contacted the financial aid office to ask about financial aid doubled this year. Fitzsimmons said that even from early data, it is clear that the incoming freshman class will be the most socioeconomically diverse Harvard has seen. The fraction of students in the class receiving financial aid could be as high as 65 percent, compared to approximately...
...want to deal with the media circus when Manny returns - just ask the San Francisco Giants, who a few years ago had Barry Bonds on the roster, how the constant scrutiny can distract a team. There will be taunting on the road. The fans will be wielding some nasty signs: Ramirez reportedly may claim that he took a banned drug called human chorionic gonadotropin to cure erectile dysfunction (the female fertility drug also happens to elevate testosterone levels, which get drained by, coincidentally, steroid use). "Manny Being Mini," one clever columnist has already written. Maybe you just want to send...
...remains more hostile to the U.S. than to the Taliban. Karzai, meanwhile, has long been written off by Washington an incapable of providing the kind of governance essential to winning a counterinsurgency war. Still, in response to the growing legion of skeptics on Capitol Hill, the Administration might well ask: Does anyone have a better idea...