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...admissions office in Byerly Hall sorts through upwards of 20,000 applications each year to fill just 1,675 undergraduate slots, with decisions between qualified candidates coming down to minute differences, the information marks one way for officers to measure their success in choosing a class. The feedback also provides admissions with a means to assess the rigor of high school curricula...
...will helm an offense that was the Ivy League’s second most prolific in 2005. Lamb comes to the Crimson by way of Yale, where he had been the quarterbacks coach for the last nine years, and offensive coordinator for the last three. Lamb will fill both coaching slots on head coach Tim Murphy’s staff. Lamb also spent four years as the quarterbacks coach at Amherst prior to his tenure at Yale, where he first worked with Bulldogs coach Jack Siedlecki. Under Siedlecki, Lamb directed one of the better passing attacks in the Ivies while...
...nowhere to go but up. The same goes for the grand coalition which, at its inception, inspired more skepticism than confidence. Nor is there much of an opposition in Berlin to highlight a government's shortcomings: the Greens, liberal Free Democrats and post-communist Left Party between them fill just 27% of the seats in the Bundestag. But Merkel is more than just fortunate: she has made her luck. Meetings with world leaders from President Bush to Vladimir Putin have won praise for a nicely calibrated blend of multilateral fence mending and principled criticism. At home, she toned down...
...rather than becoming more secure since 9/11, have grown even more porous. And the trend has accelerated in the past year. It's fair to estimate, based on a TIME investigation, that the number of illegal aliens flooding into the U.S. this year will total 3 million--enough to fill 22,000 Boeing 737-700 airliners, or 60 flights every day for a year. It will be the largest wave since 2001 and roughly triple the number of immigrants who will come to the U.S. by legal means. (No one knows how many illegals are living...
...work along the border say there is another, more immediate cue for the rush. In a speech on immigration policy last January, George W. Bush proposed "a new temporary-worker program that will match willing foreign workers with willing American employers when no Americans can be found to fill the jobs." The President said his program would give three-year, renewable work visas "to the millions of undocumented men and women now employed in the United States." In Mexico that statement was widely interpreted to mean that once Mexican citizens cross illegally into the U.S., they would be able...