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...high. I'm pretty sure you'd have to shoot somebody not to graduate from Harvard. Not all colleges could reasonably be expected to have a 98% graduation rate. However, if you have a 40% graduation rate and your peers have a 60% graduation rate, it's reasonable to hold you accountable for improvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...going to hold these schools accountable? State governments have to do it. A tricky thing about higher-ed policy formation is that for a long time, the Federal Government did nothing. States are the ones that actually pay for the operating costs of universities, and states are the ones that legally have authority over them. They really have to play a much stronger role in holding colleges and universities accountable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

Gilbert cites statistics, scientific studies and her painful experience with her first marriage - the impetus for the worldwide spiritual ramble of EPL - as her reasons for not wanting to tie the knot. She demonstrates how the institution threatens her independence and the well-being of many women. Her fears hold up even when she's considering union with a man who loves her, excuses her memoirist tendencies and has been known to tell her that the curves of her body "look like sand dunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Eat, Pray, Love: Fret, Mull, Marry | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...Saleh and view him as the leader of a corrupt élite who lives in luxury while almost half of the 23 million people in Yemen subsist on less than $2 a day. In the center of Sana'a, the Al-Saleh Mosque, a gleaming palace that can hold 40,000 worshippers, outshines every building in the area, perhaps in the country. The mosque cost at least $60 million to build, an unheard-of fortune in Yemeni currency, the rial. In stark contrast to the majesty of the mosque, impoverished Yemenis languish in a dusty beige slum across the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Yemen's Capital, Fearful Talk of War with al-Qaeda | 1/6/2010 | See Source »

...keeps the Crimson undefeated at home, but it will have to improve on its 1-4 away record if it wants to hold a winning record through its next three games—all away contests. The last of these looms particularly large, as it is a road game against Dartmouth—the team that destroyed Harvard’s hopes for an Ivy Title and NCAA berth last year...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Game Marks Birthday In 71-55 Drubbing of Navy | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

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