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...with God. Instead of pledging to increase financial aid this year, Harvard pledged close to nothing (our offers would remain within "shouting distance" of those of other schools, promised President Neil L. Rudenstine). And now the results are in. Not only did the College's higher prices fail to deter students from enrolling; the percentage of admitted students choosing to matriculate actually increased...
...Jackson's disappointing showing did not deter Kristol from pursuing politics. After graduating magna cum laude from the College, he pursued his government education at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...India, there is nothing obsolete about raw military power. It lost a humiliating war to China in 1962. It sees a palisade of Chinese nuclear missiles aimed at India. It sees China clandestinely supplying Pakistan, India's arch-enemy, with nuclear technology. Hence the bomb: to deter China, intimidate Pakistan and generally assert itself as a great power...
...with God. Instead of pledging to increase financial aid this year, Harvard pledged close to nothing (our offers would remain within "shouting distance" of those of other schools, promised President Neil L. Rudenstine). And now the results are in. Not only did the College's higher prices fail to deter students from enrolling; the percentage of admitted students choosing to matriculate actually increased. Selling Harvard, it seems, is something like selling insulin. People are going to buy it no matter how much it costs...
...children (the four who were killed and the two who shot them). Whatever factors led Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, to fire on their fellow students should be sought out and eliminated. The death penalty is not the issue in this case. How do you deter an anomaly? JULIUS ZIMMERMAN Richmond Heights, Ohio...