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...make some harsh decisions about whom to accept. The competitive nature of college admissions has intensified in the past decade, with elite colleges accepting less than 10 percent of their applicants. When there are more applicants than there are spots in each incoming class, colleges must discriminate in some fashion to have a talented and diverse student body. Since race remains a factor of diversity, it should be a factor in admission decisions. Harvard’s efforts to reach out to minority communities and extend educational opportunities through financial assistance are laudable and serve to attract the most competitive...
...Whenever we've investigated previous police action the press was in on, the trail has always stopped with police unions, and never led to Sarkozy or the government in verifiable fashion," says Daniel Schneidermann, media critic for the daily Liberation. "We'll probably never know where the initiative for leaking began. The thing to watch is how many suspects are detained and tried in the days and weeks after this sweep, once the media attention dies down. If a lot are, then this was a genuine police operation. If not, we can put it mostly down to spin...
...solution for the war on terror - does Musharraf fulfill that end? He only exacerbates the war on terror. There is the Newtonian law that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction, I don't know why the Americans seek to pursue this war on terror in the wrong fashion. This war on terror is all about misguided and ill-informed notions of justice. If you lock up the justices then people - particularly people who are armed and have little value of life - will take to alternate means of justice, particularly if they are possessed also with a sense...
...move in. Until recently, one of our neighbors was Zhang Shuyi, 35, who owns his own small advertising agency. He lived just behind us with his girlfriend and a big mutt of a dog who occasionally scared the daylights out of our daughter, Abby. (Zhang, in typical Shanghainese fashion, sold his house three months ago for a 20% profit and moved to another place not far from here.) Another couple are both engineers who work for Intel, helping design the chipmaker's new factory in Dalian. Another young father, Chen Jun, 36, is a successful clothing wholesaler. These...
...says. “We are not trying to compete with any existing voices.” The relatively recent appearence of the Cinematic, Freeze, and Present! can be explained by similar desires to satisfy niche markets with their exclusive coverage of—respectively—film, fashion, and anarchist...