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...News makes changes to their formula from year-to-year. This year U.S. News made a significant alteration, dropping admissions yield, the percent of all accepted students who choose to attend a college, from the calculation. Folkers said this was done after meetings with university representatives revealed that some schools relied on early decision programs to help manipulate their yield in order to improve their rankings. Previously, yield made up 1.5 percent of a school’s total rank index score...
...continuing wave of terrorism in Iraq will have real consequences. America's relationship with the Muslim world is staked to our success in reconstructing and stabilizing the ruined country. As long as our troops must attend to protecting themselves and tracking insurgents instead of setting the country aright, the U.S.'s claims of being a beneficent liberator will ring hollow in the ears of many Muslims. And they in turn may find the al-Qaeda view of the universe increasingly attractive...
...eight or nine thousand volumes are the world's largest collection of books on Afghanistan. Yet he's a traditionalist who presides strictly over business and family - including a teenage second wife who evicts his first wife from the marital chamber. His 12-year-old son yearns to attend school but has to tend one of Sultan's shops. "You are going to be a businessman. The best place to learn that is in the shop," Khan tells him firmly. The book is most compelling when depicting the circumscribed lives of the women in Khan's family. Bright and vivacious...
...with ensuring that only people with identification entered—disallowing entry to well-known poet Robert Lowell, who was at Harvard at the time. Lowell had forgotten his identification, and Epps eventually told the employee from the registrar’s office that she should allow Lowell to attend the meeting...
...with ensuring that only people with identification entered—disallowing entry to well-known poet Robert Lowell, who was at Harvard at the time. Lowell had forgotten his identification, and Epps eventually told the employee from the registrar’s office that she should allow Lowell to attend the meeting...