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...Kenyi, according to the Times, have lower Academic Index numbers than in years past. Frank Ben-Eze, regarded as the biggest recruit Amaker has landed for this year’s class by most scouting services, has not yet reached the Academic Index minimum of 171 points to earn admission.The admissions office has maintained that it has not lowered its academic standards.According to an admissions office statement, “The admission of Harvard athletes represents the highest levels of Ivy League principles and practices. Any reports to the contrary are inaccurate and premature as students are not admitted until...
...would be rested and well for Friday’s contest against the No. 75 Boston College Eagles (6-1). The Crimson (0-6), however, caught a bug during the layoff and had to make last minute personnel changes. The Eagles took advantage of the makeshift lineup as they earned a 5-2 victory at the Murr Center. “Pretty much everyone playing today had some sort of an illness,” junior Laura Peterzan said. “But I think we did a good job. We competed really hard.” As the first...
...recipient of U.S. military aid outside Iraq - is ignoring its original purpose. But the Bush Administration would argue that by beheading the FARC, Plan Colombia is actually fulfilling its anti-drug mandate - because at least half of the between $500 million and $1 billion the FARC is believed to earn each year is derived from protecting Colombian cocaine trafficking. The other half is made via ransom kidnapping - the FARC currently holds more than 700 hostages in its jungle redoubts, including three Americans - which is the other reason the U.S. State Department placed the rebels on its list of international terrorist...
...Rent didn't exactly start a revolution. Broadway continues to do robust business; total attendance climbed 2.7% last year, to a record high of 12.3 million. But the vast majority of hit musicals since Rent, from The Producers to Jersey Boys, still earn their money the old-fashioned way: by catering to comfortably middlebrow, middle-aged audiences...
...themselves. She has taken her aid for the displaced one step further with an employment initiative. She managed to get 60 sewing machines through donations and set up a small workshop, which employs 100 women from displaced families. Odhaib sees the program as a way to help the families earn a lilttle income and find some dignity until a better solution emerges. She knows firsthand it can work. When Odhaib's husband wound up jobless in the early 1990s, she supported the family by opening a small tailoring shop in Baghdad. At first she made clothes to order by herself...