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...Welcome to Census India 2001. Late this month computers will spew out the first figures expected to confirm that India is well on its way to overtaking China as the world's most populous nation. Even before the numbers are in, everything about this count has been gigantic and controversial. The government dispatched some 2 million enumerators, or clerks, across the country to visit every village and household, including the makeshift dwellings of India's urban slums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Tabs on India | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Saturday, the Associated Press declared that Harvard officials still refused to confirm reports of Summers' selection. But at 2:19 p.m. on Sunday, the wire service moved a single-sentence alert, confirming that Summers had officially been tapped. Yesterday, newspapers from the Globe to the Times to the Washington Post carried stories of their own on the Summers appointment...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dignified Day Ends Media Frenzy; With Harvard Silent, Gossip Ruled | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...What is most interesting about this story is the source," wrote Slate.com in reference to The Crimson's exclusive. MSNBC indicated that the Globe had finally succumbed to pressure to confirm the story it originally dismissed: "It, too, printed the rumor report on Sunday," the organization wrote on its website...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dignified Day Ends Media Frenzy; With Harvard Silent, Gossip Ruled | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...YORK--The Harvard Board of Overseers, the University's second highest governing board, met yesterday on the 64th floor of a Rockefeller Center skyscraper in midtown Manhattan to confirm Lawrence H. Summers as the 27th president of the University...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy and Catherine E. Shoichet, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: High Above Manhattan, Overseers Confirmed Pick Just Hours Before Announcement | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Early last week, Overseers received a Fed-Exed letter from the search committee inviting them to attend a meeting this weekend to confirm the committee's pick, although Monday's snowstorm delayed the delivery of some letters...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy and Catherine E. Shoichet, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: High Above Manhattan, Overseers Confirmed Pick Just Hours Before Announcement | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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