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...make up 50.7 percent of applicants to the class of 2013 and women make up 49.3 percent. Applications have risen in greater Boston and the mid-Atlantic region, risen slightly in the South and West, and decreased slightly in the Northeast...
...past. In a statement issued at the G-20 summit in Washington in November, the participants insisted that they understood "the critical importance of rejecting protectionism and not turning inward in times of financial uncertainty." In times of economic stress, however, it is often difficult to prioritize the greater good...
...cease-fire came into effect at 2 a.m. on Sunday. When we returned to our home, we had no idea that the truce was coming. Now we are dealing with a perplexity. We had all been prepared to sacrifice for the greater cause and had anticipated personal loss. But the experience of the past few weeks raised another, perhaps incompatible, aim: we want to keep our loved ones safe and our lives intact...
...then seek work there or in the Muslim promised land of Malaysia. On Dec. 28, 98 of them were found drifting by India's remote Andaman Islands, starving and dehydrated, a picture of the hardship weathered by generations of boat people fleeing adversity only to fall into even greater trials...
...tones. The man's name is Muzaffar, and his testimony was obtained over cell phone from his place of temporary detention in India by the Arakan Project, a Bangkok-based group advocating the rights of these boat people. Muzaffar's account appears to amplify other published reports - except in greater detail. He said Thai security forces first forcibly detained him and hundreds of other refugees offshore and then towed them back into international waters in a motorless barge, where they were at the mercy of the shark-infested sea. More than 300 people who were with Muzaffar are missing; they...