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...worries about acceptance and eliminate the burden of additional applications. Yet not all early programs are created equal. Binding Early Decision programs limit student choice and instead favor colleges by allowing them to choose with certainly a subsection of applicants who will be required to enroll. In contrast, Early Action programs are non-binding; they thus provide flexibility, allowing students to apply to other colleges without the added pressure of a matriculation obligation...
...contrast, trouble awaits those who want to get involved. Beside a railway track in south Beijing, five people have camped out in a plastic tent. Meng Jianxin, the most outspoken of them, traveled to Beijing last week from Fengjie city in Sichuan province, where his family home will be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. He says local officials embezzled much of his compensation money, and he's here to petition the congress for redress. "I want to ask the delegates who they represent, who elected them," he says. At the nearby train station, six uniformed police watch from under...
This message was so strong, while the message from the mantel and the room itself was so muddled. Perhaps it was that contrast that made me put the book down and re-examine where...
...contrast, Robson said, he hoped O’Brien had gained momentum by running what he called a mostly positive campaign—particularly in its final days. Democratic primary candidate Robert B. Reich, who attended the event, said both candidates were equally culpable for using negative campaigning...
Ansel A. Payne ’04 from Roane County, West Virginia said his childhood in rural Appalachia gave him a distinctive understanding on a history of exploitation rarely addressed in courses here. The contrast between perceptions of the poor at Harvard and their day-to-day reality was striking to Maggie J. Morgan ’04 when she arrived here from Tupelo, Mississippi. “People here need a broader perspective of how others actually live. Many think poor people are just some abstract group that needs to be reformed,” she said...