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Though the goal broke Harvard’s shutout streak, it does not diminish the Crimson’s dominance in its first five games. Harvard has posted 34 goals while holding its opponents to just...
...selective universities in terms of its socioeconomic diversity. The school’s lack of any early applicant pool may have some effect. According to Brian Fitzgerald, director of the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance at the U.S. Department of Education, early-admissions programs diminish socioeconomic diversity. “The majority of students applying in the early process are full-pays or close to it,” Fitzgerald says. So if early applicants are given a leg up, economic diversity can suffer...
...figures on campus, and the Ivy League educational experience would fall apart. (It has to look this grim to the presidents or else they would have caved in to logic a long time ago). But if they can keep Pandora’s box shut, they can continue to diminish the presence of football players on campus and achieve greater diversity by phasing out athletes...
...approach to nuclear-security issues with both Iran and North Korea, the remaining points on the "axis of evil." The neocons argue that the only way to curb the suspected atomic ambitions of these regimes is to depose the rulers. The moderates believe that engaging adversaries in dialogue can diminish the threat more easily and cheaply. So the Bush team has alternately ignored, threatened, cajoled and coerced the two countries, driven not by a coherent strategy but by a disorderly struggle at the highest levels to find common tactical ground between two irreconcilable approaches, engagement and confrontation...
...further facilitating passive course selection with little or no input from experienced advisers, the move to an online system would further diminish confidence in the value of the advising system on the part of both students and their advisors. Printed study cards consume an insignificant single sheet of paper per student each semester, and the accumulation of a few signatures is little to ask of students to avoid the non-advice of “point-and-click” advising...