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...only have about 1,660 places in the freshman class. We know the Houses are full to capacity and there are no places to put students in the Yard. As last year, we will be conservative in April and take more students from the waitlist in case there is a significant jump in the yield...
Some ex-presidents proved to be more effective public servants after the White House than before. John Quincy Adams served nine consecutive terms as a congressman and argued the Amistad case (made famous by the Steven Spielberg film) before the Supreme Court. William H. Taft became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court following his unimpressive term. He loved the job so much that he was said to quip, "I don't remember that I was ever president...
...Lowdown: In case you weren't aware, the sheer heft of this book and its contents serves to remind that Barack Obama has got a ton on his plate - starting now. As the dozens of contributors write, Obama has to: restore America's world leadership role, convince Americans that the government can work for them, responsibly pull out from Iraq, protect the homeland, reduce America's dependence on foreign oil, transition towards a green economy, invest in the nation's crumbling infrastructure, halt torture, close Guantanamo Bay, make the federal government transparent again, reduce global poverty, cut taxes, halt...
...would continue to fight the early parole of Yury Budanov, a decorated tank commander who had admitted to and was convicted of the strangling death of an 18-year-old Chechen woman in 2000. Anastasia Baburova, 25, a freelance journalist for Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper covering the Budanov case, was also shot as she walked with Markelov; she later died of her wounds in the hospital, said Dmitry Muratov, editor in chief of the paper...
With a floundering economy forcing cities nationwide to slash budgets, some municipalities are having to carve out their very souls. A Californian case in point: Santa Cruz. The city is iconic in the history of American surfing. But the city council, faced with a $7 million deficit, voted in December to close the city's surfing museum, the world's first and a mecca for locals and tourists alike since it opened in 1986. And it's not just the surfing musuem. The decision includes shutting down the natural-history museum, a teen center, a community center and a public...