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...Test of English as a Foreign Language, for instance—qualified applicants from troubled environments cannot hope for anything resembling the leniency shown to Ben-Eze, who apparently was guaranteed admission so long as he could raise his ‘Academic Index’ to the bare minimum tolerated by Ivy League bylaws. I couldn’t tell you if the New York Times makes it to Nablus in hard copy, but at Web cafés around the world, aspiring scholars learned that Harvard will compromise for students who show enough promise—at basketball.It...
...appears because as vivid and visceral as Human Smoke is, it has a maddeningly slippery quality. In presenting bare facts unadorned by any commentary, Human Smoke cloaks itself in an aura of limpid, virtuous purity. But beneath that cloak, things get a little murky because in presenting the facts as he does, Baker is making an argument that he doesn't explicitly state. Does he really believe--as he seems to--that aerial bombing is on a moral continuum with Nazi genocide? And that Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews is comparable to Churchill's hatred of the Germans...
...class - Telpuk's meteoric rise to national fame was consecrated by her naked appearance on the cover of February's Argentina edition of Playboy. But it's the suitcase she's holding in that photograph, bearing the flags of Argentina and Venezuela, and the cover line "Corruption Laid Bare" that reveal the story of how she became a household name...
...jamz. 4) Fire-eaters—C’mon, who doesn’t want a freshman roommate who swallows flaming knives on a regular basis? 5) World-savers—If you once prevented panthers from devouring an Indian village by fighting off the cats with your bare hands, you have a fighting chance of getting in. 6) Budding Hugh Hefners—A college can never have too many porn mags...third time’s the charm? 7) “Anonymous” gossip bloggers—You don’t even have...
...campaigning will have served to remind voters of her divisiveness. This certainly seemed the case in South Carolina. If Barack Obama is the candidate, his message of a new, hopeful brand of politics will have been wholly undermined by insult warfare. Not to mention that an extended period of bare-knuckle politics threatens to undo all the energy the Democratic Party has amassed in a campaign that featured both the potential first female president and potentially the first African American. For Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and senior advisor...