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...with reasonable certainty??and this back-of-the-envelope calculation is certainly not meant to be definitive—that with 25,000 domestic applicants to Harvard, out of 1.5 million applicants in the country, approximately one in 60 of these individuals applied to Harvard this year. For us, these odds are a strong case for humility...

Author: By Thomas J. Hwang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Admissions: One in Sixty | 4/10/2010 | See Source »

...just takes a bit of courage—and of course, certainty??in a world where both are as bare as a pair of Manolo Blahnik strappy sandals...

Author: By Peter B. Weston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Class to Couture | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...month, my classmates will move on to more lucrative lives. With their Harvard diplomas, they are shoo-ins for the upper middle class, and many will climb even higher. So what’s the problem? With all this upward mobility—as a matter of statistical certainty??many of today’s residents of the Kremlin on the Charles will wake up not too long from now as (gasp) Republicans...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon | Title: What’s Wrong With Mamaroneck? | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...ceremony Tuesday, is the largest optical telescope east of the Mississippi, and is the first of its kind to be devoted entirely to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), according to the Planetary Society. “It’s overwhelmingly likely—a certainty??that there’s other life in our galaxy,” Horowitz said yesterday. “There’s a pretty good likelihood that much of that life has evolved to a technological state.” According to Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society?...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof Goes High-Tech in ET Search | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...also face the troubling reality that, in this war, the term “home front” is no longer a metaphor. Our enemies have already shown, to devastating effect, their ability to penetrate our shores. America must prepare itself for the possibility—or, perhaps, the certainty??that terrorists will attempt to attack us again as we work, play, study and live our lives. But we must never let our preparedness give way to fear and hesitancy. Our diplomatic efforts had failed, due to the obstinancy of the Taliban; and if, rather than initiate military...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just the Beginning | 10/9/2001 | See Source »

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