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After pulling ahead of Princeton last year to claim the top spot on US News & World Report's list of "America's Best Colleges," Harvard has tied its Ivy League rival at number one on the 2010 list...
Grubman, Lizzie •claim by that roman à clef by former employee of - which features a drunken or drugged publicist angrily backing her car into a crowd outside a nightclub - "isn't about...
...What distinguishes Hamas - as well as organizations like Hizballah and Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - from groups like al-Qaeda is that they recognize, whether out of principle or practical necessity, that the will of the people they claim to represent is paramount," says Mouin Rabbani, an Amman-based senior fellow of the Institute for Palestine Studies. "In deciding their actions, they're ultimately more responsive to their environment than to their principles...
...grounds." The decision to release the 57-year-old Al-Megrahi, who continues to proclaim his innocence, sparked outrage from victims' families and drew a condemnation from the Obama Administration, which warned Libyan officials not to grant al-Megrahi "a hero's welcome" upon his return. Conspiracy theorists, meanwhile, claim al-Megrahi was a victim himself, arguing that U.S. authorities steered the investigation away from Syria and Iran in the run-up to the first Gulf War. (Read "Re-Opening the Lockerbie Tragedy...
...couple of months ago, it was reported that Clemson University was trying to manipulate the rankings through strategic voting - giving competitors a below-average rating. The university denied the claim. Is that something you try to police? We definitely do. We throw out the two highest ratings and the two lowest ratings for each school, so we have some statistical safeguards to prevent any strategic voting from impacting any school's score. And the fact that the schools' scores have been stable - there's been academic research to show that - is proof in and of itself that schools aren...