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...university was assigned a Predictive Qualities Indicator score that determined its ranking. Harvard’s PQI score was 2365.42. Columbia, which ranked second, scored more than a hundred points lower. Stanford, which came in third, scored more than a hundred points less than Columbia. Yale ranked a distant eighth. “It’s kind of interesting how large the gap was between Harvard and the other schools,” Payack said. “The difference between Harvard and MIT was substantial.” MIT ranked 19th, with a score of less than nine...
...days at a time. We’ve joined Facebook groups proclaiming “I Picked a Major I Like, and One Day I Will Probably Be Living in a Box.” We’ve built up our quads so we can climb to our eighth-floor garrets with comparative ease. We’ve even learned the warning signs of consumption in case things should take a turn for La Boheme. Each summer, we intern in art studios and theaters and support ourselves by waiting tables. At lunch time, we sit in the park...
...TROPHY Some members of the co-ed team were able to race in the Hood Trophy at Tufts, but, as was the case at Boston University, the weather was not a friend to the Crimson. Harvard finished ninth overall in the regatta, placing tenth in the A-division and eighth in the B-division. The competition was characterized by a lack of wind, which only allowed for three races—the minimum amount required for a regatta to count—to be completed. “[We were] not very happy with the result,” junior...
...defeat of the season. The Quakers (2-7, 1-1 Ivy), who had lost seven straight games, attacked right from the beginning. Penn notched three shots on goal in the opening minutes, all of which were stopped by senior goaltender Kylie Stone. The Quakers finally broke through in the eighth minute when they gained a penalty corner, and on the ensuing play, Penn midfielder Margaretha Ehret gathered the ball at the top of the circle and ripped a shot that was heading just wide of the goal until teammate Laurel McGarvie tipped it past Stone and into the net. After...
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars - some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo. "It's worse than the fire of Hell," he wrote...