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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only a slight accent; he has the kind of calm, even voice that must come in handy for delivering bad news to patients. Lounging in the kitchen of the large, neat house he shares with his wife and two children, he wears a cable-knit sweater and a baseball cap that says Miller High Life on it, which he keeps on even inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kite Runner Author Returns Home | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...know if I beat him so much as he lost. [Laughs.] But it was a nice little feather in the cap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Don Cheadle | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...year’s aggregate recruiting class must fall within one standard deviation of the mean AI of the student body; and, third, it places restrictions on the biggest sport, football, wherein AI ranges for each individual school are divided into four “bands” that cap the number of allowable players at each numerical level, ascending in size from bottom...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Fair is Fair Harvard? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...with a carbon tax, so the cost of pollution is finally priced into the market. "I understand this is considered politically impossible," he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "But part of our task is to expand the limits of what's possible." He would adopt a cap-and-trade program that would allow U.S. industry to meet reduction targets in part by trading pollution credits. Critics often dismiss carbon offsets as the green equivalent of religious indulgences, but in fact they stimulate the market-moving entrepreneurs to find dirty plants, clean them up and sell the CO2 reductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Temptation of Al Gore | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

Other Ivies have also felt the effects of grade inflation. In the spring of 2004, Princeton voted to cap their A-range grades at 35 percent...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report: Grade Inflation Persists | 5/9/2007 | See Source »

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