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...committee held off on a vote of the matter after members raised concerns that the motion would deter possible candidates from applying to the high school’s principalship...
...contributing to the decline in applications at that time.And last year, when Summers sparked a national uproar with his remarks on women in science, the College experienced “virtually no change in the yield,” Fitzsimmons said.When asked whether the controversy over Summers would deter prospective students, Weary Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatue Judith L. Ryan said, “I think that is something that would concern anybody.”Yet one Harvard hopeful, Clay R. Hane, a senior at Cary Academy in North Carolina, said, “I don?...
...Investigations into the attack continue, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has sworn to bring those responsible to justice. ?This senseless act will not deter our strong resolve to pursue the relentless fight against the evil of terrorism,? he said in a message sent to New Delhi where President Bush is visiting before his trip to Pakistan. ?We all must continue to work together to eliminate this threat...
...life remains unprotected: water and food supplies; refineries, energy grids and pipelines; bridges, tunnels, trains, trucks and cargo containers; as well as the cyberbackbone that underpins the information age in which we live. The security measures we have been cobbling together are hardly fit to deter amateur thieves, vandals and hackers, never mind determined terrorists. Worse still, small improvements are often oversold as giant steps forward, lowering the guard of average citizens as they carry on their daily routine with an unwarranted sense of confidence. For instance, while the flying public is busy shedding shoes and bags...
...Christina G. Vangelakos ’09 prepared for her shot at romance. Just as she set her eyes on Eric I. Lu ’09, the skies opened up and drenched the two romantic hopefuls. But it would take more than a torrential downpour to deter the pair, who received a 98% compatability rating after participating in Datamatch, the Harvard Computer Society’s (HCS) online dating survey...