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Claims that expansion of the undergraduate body might diminish the school’s reputation by raising the acceptance level and increasing the number of students who could tout the Harvard name is both elitist and absurd. There are plenty of similarly respectable universities with much larger undergraduate populations than the 7,400 that would be created by adding 1,000 undergraduates—Harvard turns down thousands of well-qualified students a year—and acceptance rates would likely maintain their present level as increased visibility of international students on campus would encourage greater numbers to apply. Summers...
...sovereignty. But June's transfer of power to whatever government ultimately takes shape looks increasingly like a symbolic event. As long as anticoalition forces maintain control over parts of the country, U.S. commanders have no choice but to keep troops on a combat footing. Although the violence in Iraq diminished somewhat last week, neither the U.S. military nor Iraqi intelligence sources believe that is likely to last long. A senior Iraqi intelligence source says flatly that the cycle of violence will escalate, not diminish, in the weeks ahead, according to his agency's intelligence reports. Furthermore, there appears...
...against racism and anti-Semitism. For that, we are indebted to both of these great spiritual leaders. We can also thank John Paul for taking steps that led toward the historic collapse of communism in Poland and everywhere else behind the Iron Curtain. His belief in God did not diminish his sense of duty toward the worldly well-being of God's creatures. In other words, without the Pope, without his political interventions, the 20th century could have ended differently. That is a measure of his influence on today's world...
Even now, according to the Institute of Medical and National Academy of Sciences, avoidable medical errors account for the deaths of roughly 98,000 patients a year. It is imperative that people have confidence in their doctors. But passage of the proposed bill will diminish doctor accountability while increasing patient vulnerability. Because an arbitrary cap on damages cannot account for pain and suffering—as it does not correlate to any economic formula—allowing juries to decide an appropriate award is only fair. Capping the amount of damages payable to victims of malpractice undermines the importance...
...ambulance siren can top out at an excruciating 120 db. "Noise pollution is truly a public health threat," says Representative Nita Lowey of New York, who has reintroduced a bill in Congress to turn down the volume. "It's critical," she says, "that we work to diminish the impact [noise] has on our communities...