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Admitted students have until May 1st to decide whether they will accept Harvard's offer of admission. Financial aid offers may be a factor that is carefully weighed in many of these decisions...
Finally, there was another, more intriguing, factor. When the Lewinsky story broke, Clinton played a dummy hand, sitting out the first 48 hours in shock, while his wife plotted a way out. But this time, if the White House can be believed, Clinton was just plain mad. On Saturday night he and his Camp David houseguests watched The Boxer, a dense drama of personal and political pain in Northern Ireland. Then he got on the phone with the trashman, James Carville, who in 1992 ran the war room and commandeered the phrase "speed kills" to express the belief that when...
...apart. The revered practices of communal tradition have succeeded, better than any modern forms of psychotherapy, in restoring a sense of unity to Mozambique's deeply riven clans. "National reconciliation started in the communities themselves," says Roberto Chavez, the World Bank director in Mozambique. "They were the main factor in bringing the country back together...
...Germany, home of Adidas and Puma. That's why Nike has made soccer the focus of an unprecedented assault. The logic is simple. Soccer is the world's sport, and the company can't have any credibility as a sports brand unless it is a factor in the game. "Our goal is to be the world leader in football by 2002, the next World Cup," says Sandy Bodecker, who runs the soccer division...
Still, Harvard decidedly lacks playoff experience, an invaluable postseason commodity. Moreover, they will face a perennial ECAC contender, veteran of many postseason matches. However, Harvard feels that any playoff jitters dissipated last weekend and the age differential should not be a factor...