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...Clark’s deanship also saw controversy last spring when dozens of prospective students, tipped off by an online hacker, tried to gain unauthorized access to a website detailing their admissions status at HBS as well as at five other top business schools.Less than a week after the breaches became public, HBS decided it would categorically reject all 119 applicants who had attempted to check their admissions status—a move that some critics called unduly harsh.“This behavior is unethical at best—a serious breach of trust that can not be countered...
More rankings and better rankings are both needed if we are to breach the stasis of the U.S. News list. Indeed, a slough of rankings is the only appropriate response to the horrors of quantifying something as rich as a university. One ultimately hopes that the diversity of rankings will reflect the diversity of colleges...
...ticket to mainland Spain; people who got through were typically released in Spain after 40 days, since no repatriation agreements exist with their native countries. While Melilla and Ceuta have attracted African migrants since the mid-1990s, the Spanish Civil Guard estimates that 13,000 people have tried to breach the border this year in Melilla alone, spurred by famine. Last Wednesday, at least 65 men and boys out of more than 500 made it to Melilla. When others tried again in greater numbers on Thursday, only one got through and six died, some crushed by the crowd and some...
Five days after their official resignation, the DormAid executives each received a letter from HSA’s lawyers. According to Kopko, the letter alleged that the students had committed a breach of contract by quitting their HSA jobs and misappropriated intellectual property by using HSA management techniques at DormAid...
...Katrina's damage was multiplied a thousand times by the breach of the levees. This is a classic case of the penny-wise, pound-foolish policies of modern politicians and bureaucrats. The problem is not limited to the Bush Administration. Driven by concepts like cost cutting and lean government, shortsighted budget officials may save a few billion dollars, but they end up losing $50 billion when tragedies must be dealt with later on. Anil Kumar Aleti Hyderabad, India...