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...School,” Kagan said in an interview last October. “I had a very fine experience, but I was always conscious that most students did not have that view.”Many of Kagan’s former classmates cite large class size as the driving factor behind the widespread grumbling among the student body. Compared to other top-tier schools such as Yale or Stanford—which have been characterized as having happier students—Harvard’s class size is roughly three times as large...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Kagan's Legal Legacy | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...have we caught the hug bug? Mental-health professionals cite everything from increasing population density to community spirit among millennials. Some theories point to 9/11 bringing the country together and to The Sopranos showing that tough guys can hug too. More recently, the hit show Entourage prompted fans to "hug it out, bitch" (a tagline now immortalized on T shirts). "I'd always welcome a hug," says Aaron Schutte, a senior at Iowa's Wartburg College and founder of the 2,500-member Facebook group I Love a Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Hugs the New Handshakes? | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Kennedy apparently has no better grasp of law than he does of fact. He claims: “Violent resistance to the military occupation is fully legal under international law.” He does not cite any such law, because there is none that privileges violence when nonviolent options are available. (Perhaps he has in mind the first Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention, which Palestinian terror groups routinely violate anyway...

Author: By Joel B. Pollak | Title: Tenured But Wrong | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

Colleges may track—and take into consideration—factors such as the number of times students visit campus, whether or not those individuals have interviews during that visit, and whether or not applicants cite a school as their first choice, all of which determine how likely students are to accept admission offers...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Questions Popularity Rankings | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

Though the complaint against Cosmo does not cite an official Ponzi scheme, it certainly looks and smells like a Ponzi. The complaint alleges that Agape's bridge loans were touted as secured by borrowers' assets and that investors would receive substantial interest returns ranging from 48% to 80% per year. Records indicate that from Jan. 1, 2006, to Nov. 30, 2008, more than $370 million was deposited into Agape accounts - the vast majority of which was provided by more than 1,500 investors - and that less than $10 million of the $370 million was actually used to make loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Ponzi Scheme? Money Manager Cosmo Busted | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

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