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...actually having fun will be expelled—came as little surprise. After all, Yale has been trying since its birth (the unfortunately recent year of 1701) to outdo Harvard. It has failed repeatedly in the most important fields, those of academic prestige, athletic excellence, and the ability to attract Natalie Portman ’03. But now, at long last, Yale has laid claim to one of the strongholds of Harvard’s power, the ability to regulate and control the social lives of its students.I recently found myself wondering why Harvard (and now Yale) has cracked down...
Raymond D. Cotton, vice president for higher education at MLStrategies, a law firm in Washington, said that universities must use economic incentives to attract the best and the brightest individuals to lead their schools...
...what’s going on here.”It’s tough to say whether or not the Ivy League will remain on the media’s radar. NFL-bound quarterbacks and Rhodes Scholar tailbacks are few and far between.Among those likely to attract such a spotlight is Harvard junior running back Clifton Dawson, who, according to Sullivan, brings several different potential storylines to the table. A few of them have already been noticed by newspapers in his home in Ontario.Sullivan said that as Dawson inevitably knocks down records next year, the media will likely come...
...party leader, Shimon Peres, he told TIME that he plans to quit Sharon's government immediately and force elections as early as next March. He hopes to draw voters with a social agenda that includes a higher minimum wage and government-subsidized pensions. He hopes the program will attract poorer people who have dismissed Labor as a party for the rich, particularly Arab voters and Jews whose origins, like Peretz's own, lie in the Arab world. Officials in Sharon's Likud Party and others who have built recent electoral success on the discontent of those voters acknowledge Peretz could...
Famous for their previous display of Faberg eggs, the Forbes Galleries in New York City are now trying to attract visitors with lesser-known "Treasures of the Titans." A more accurate description of the 140 items assembled by the National Jewelry Institute: knickknacks of the rich and famous. Who, after all, wouldn't want to see J.P. Morgan's Cartier cologne holder, right, or William Randolph Hearst's buffalo-horn drinking cup, above? Come March, the bric-a-brac exhibit will shift from the first half of the 20th century to the latter, featuring, among other items, Elvis' most utilitarian...