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...that it would eliminate the Early Action admissions program. Critics of the change opposed it because they believed eliminating Early Action would repel the most competitive applicants, who crave admissions decisions earlier in the school year, to our peer institutions. But given the overwhelmingly positive results of this admissions batch, those fears should be assuaged. Most importantly, according to the Admissions Office, this class of acceptances is likely to be more socioeconomically and geographically diverse than previous classes—which was the intended effect of eliminating Early Action. For instance, a record 11 percent of students are of African...
...military's "surge" in Iraq long before it looked like a sure thing. If the Arizona Senator risked his presidential ambitions on it, the stakes for Hammadi were higher: his life and the lives of his wife and two young children. Last summer, as the final batch of 30,000 additional American troops requisitioned by General David Petraeus was arriving in Iraq, the bus driver and his family left their refuge in Syria to return home. It had been nearly two years since they fled their neighborhood, al-Dora, after al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists killed the wife...
...Lee’s friends was eating French fries. The Senator came over and took some fries from him, promising he would pay the friend back. At the end of the game, Lee says, Obama made good on his promise and bought Lee’s friend another batch of fries...
...Mann ’05 and Josh Klimkiewicz ’06.But graduation and the minor leagues beckoned Harvard’s big bats, and the Crimson began losing its power hitters faster than it could replace them. By last season, Harvard’s need for a fresh batch of run producers became a glaring one.Wilson, a holdover from the 2005 championship team and the Crimson’s most dangerous weapon, had an off year, batting .331 but posting career-lows of three home runs and 17 RBI. While then-junior Matt Vance broke out with...
...momentum. "The scale of the uprising, its spread, is wider than 1959," Tenzin Tsundue, a charismatic Tibetan writer-activist, told TIME from Indian police detention in Jwalamukhi. "We've achieved in three days what we were hoping to achieve in three months." Tsundue had been among the first batch of 101 marchers held on Thursday by Indian authorities. Organizers were also hoping the protests within Tibet and China would gather steam. "Much as we are sad for our brothers and sisters in Tibet, we want the protests to continue," said B. Tsering, president of the Tibetan Women's Association...