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...five comparable professors. After a review from the Office of Academic Affairs, the letters are sent to prominent tenured scholars in the field of the candidate who are asked to rank the names in order of perceived accomplishment and potential. These letters can often be “blind,” lacking any indication of which contender Harvard is actually considering...
...Last year, the College gave non-loan aid to 1,081 undergraduates—one-sixth of the student body—whose families made $60,000 or less. Among them were 135 students whose family incomes were below $10,000. Harvard says it has a need-blind admissions policy, meaning that applications are considered without regard to a family’s ability to pay for college. “We make a pledge to [families] to meet their full need,” Fitzsimmons said. “Every year, we try to think of what...
...home or at the movies, not in stores. "The long-term challenges will be keeping the idea fresh and keeping down the price," says Harry Balzer of the NPD Group. Other major popcorn retailers, like the Popcorn Factory, have grown by selling online, so Dale and Thomas is driving blind, without a trail blazed by another company. Even the business's CEO admits that its rocket-fueled expansion may be a bumpy ride. "When you move this quickly, you make mistakes," Struhl says...
...American society is most certainly not colorblind. In fact, most that invoke a desire to live in a colorblind society are really expressing a desire that we all blind ourselves to the way one’s skin color affects the way they’re perceived and treated in this country. And the real question becomes: Who benefits most from that situation...
...ever envision becoming so prolific a builder of latrines? -Ricardo Fernandez, Orland Park, Ill. [Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel...