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Starting the fourth down 5-4, the Pioneers made things look bleaker, scoring with 12:45 left on an unassisted goal from sophomore Todd Ruport to make...
...transfer admission each year. If Harvard were to accept a substantial number of Tulane applicants, the acceptance rate of this special pool would far exceed the single-digit figures that perennially govern the ultra-competitive transfer application process, which would be unfair to standard transfer applicants who face far bleaker odds. On the other hand, if Harvard were to apply the same standard to the Tulane pool as to the general pool, then—statistically, at least—every single applicant would have to face the overwhelming probability of rejection. Even if one or two students were accepted...
...never talked about the effects of the environment,” Kulathinal said, adding that it is possible for one’s chromosomes to tell a bleaker story then narrated...
Democrats once thought a bleaker outlook in Iraq would help their nominee convince Americans that the time has come to find another Commander in Chief and that new revelations about how the Administration missed advance signs of 9/11 were just the thing to put a dent in George Bush's political armor. Both possibilities have come to pass, but the latest polls suggest they may make John Kerry's challenge harder, not easier. As one Democratic strategist says, "No matter how bad Bush does on the war and 9/11, just having voters think about it kills us." Another puts...
Life has been good to Mervyn L. and Joyce Alphonso: four healthy children, a six-bedroom house, a Mercedes in the driveway. But a few decades ago, life was much bleaker. They were both surviving day to day in Guyana, their families crowded into small cottages without indoor plumbing. Mervyn's father had died when he was 13, casting the youngster into the work force as a messenger who also attended school; Joyce studied furiously in the hopes of getting a job abroad...