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However, there exists an even better solution, considering that students may still subvert a cheaper payment plan and sneak their guests in. Several other schools offer a system of guest meals on the meal plan. Simmons College across the river, as well as larger institutions like Villanova and Georgetown University, allot a number of guest swipes for their dining halls to their students...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Phaneuf | Title: May the Outsiders Starve | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

Tony Lake can seem shy and self-effacing on the outside, but he is fiercely competitive. To get to his day job as a professor at Georgetown University, he rides on a 49.9cc Taiwanese motor scooter, wearing a gray suit, a tie, a black molded helmet and sunglasses. Pegged as an idealist, Lake has big strategies for counterterrorism and international development that have meshed naturally with Obama's belief that the Iraq invasion was an inadequate cold war--style response to 21st century problems like poverty, insecure borders and weapons proliferation. To get Obama ready for a presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling to Be the Next Secretary of State | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Like Harvard, which announced a record low admissions rate of 7.1 percent on Monday, other prestigious colleges saw more competitive admissions processes this year than in the past. Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale were among the schools that had their lowest admit rate on record this year. Yale admitted 1,892 of its 22,813 applicants—a rate of 8.3 percent, down from 9.5 percent for the class of 2011. Columbia College admitted 8.7 percent, Stanford University 9.5 percent, and Dartmouth College 13.2 percent. The change was not confined to Ivy League schools and Stanford. Other...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Other Schools Admit Few | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...Radcliffe women’s lightweight crew took to the water for the first time this spring, and after a mixed-bag performance on Saturday against Georgetown in the Class of 2004 Cup, the team regrouped and swept Holy Cross and Smith yesterday. Consistently, the band of novice walk-ons shined, placing first on both days, smoking boats full of girls with greater experience. “It took a lot of hard work this week over spring break and a lot of focus,” novice stroke Elyse Traverse said. “We’ve done...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fine Tuning for Harvard in Opener | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...Some liberals saw this double-tracking of treaty approval as an erosion of America's respect for international law. Law professor Marty Lederman of Georgetown University, writing on the widely read Scotusblog after the decision was handed down, called the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts "an implausible interpretation" that was "potentially very troubling for construction of treaty obligations going forward." He worried that by letting states ignore treaties unless Congress ordered them to abide by them, the Supreme Court had opened the door for chaos in compliance with all international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush's Treaty Power Grab Failed | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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