Word: gainful
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...Another gain from more rankings is decreasing the vast incentives for colleges to selectively report, or even misreport, student data. For example, many colleges, such as Northeastern University and Boston University, exclude the verbal SAT scores of their international students—traditionally low—but report their math scores—traditionally high. In another case, Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J., once overstated its SAT scores by more than 200 points. In 1993, even Harvard was found to have overstated its SAT scores by 15 points. Furthermore, a large component of the U.S. News rankings?...
...should be allowed free reign to direct their studies. I believe that students should be encouraged to design their own courses of study in the context of a nurturing and challenging relationship with an adviser or mentor. Students are not free to take the easiest route for they must gain the approval of a faculty who I believe, deserve more responsibility in shaping students academic trajectories. The question is who or what legitimizes students academic choices. I think that legitimation from faculty who are charged to know and care about the students is infinitely better at guaranteeing the relevance...
...Stonehurst victory for the Crimson. Facing a strong headwind, the Crimson eight shared the lead with Brown throughout the first mile of the three-mile course but pulled away in the later two-thirds of the head race. A minor seat malfunction with 30 seconds remaining allowed Brown to gain a length on the first-place Harvard boat. The Crimson overcame the equipment breakage within three strokes, however, and secured the George M. Angle Cup in the crew’s first fall competition. Harvard will next be in action on Oct. 22 for the 41st annual Head...
...Ministry has enjoyed less clout because it was held by minority parties of the governing coalition (current foreign minister Joschka Fischer, of the Green Party, being the most recent example). With the post in the hands of a major party within a grand coalition, the position is expected to gain in influence...
Defusing groups like the Salah ed-Din Brigades won't be easy. Unlike Hamas, they have no political program that Abbas can negotiate over. Abu Samhadana says his "main priority" is to gain sinecures for his men in the Palestinian Authority's security forces. So far, he has been offered jobs for 500. That's not enough, he says, and complains that the remaining 1,500 "will be like the rest of the Palestinian people--unemployed." The town of Rafah is particularly desperate: it has a 66% unemployment rate, compared with 25% among Palestinians in general...