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...this year’s recruits had fewer points on the Academic Index—the Ivy League’s measure for determining if recruited athletes meet the academic standards of member institutions—than would have been allowed in previous years. The Academic Index formula relies on an athlete’s GPA, standardized test scores, and class rank to determine a “score” that is weighed in the recruiting process.The Times reported that, according to two former Harvard assistant coaches, last year’s team had an average...
...just rubbing it in. 2) You can tell a lot from toasting: a person of lower status touches the rim of their glass below the rim of a higher-status counterpart. 3) Chinese people will look up to you (you will be taller than most). 4) Tap your index and middle finger on the table twice to thank someone pouring tea or signal that you have enough. 5) Check out Mao’s body—it’s preserved in Tiananmen Square! 6) You should learn a few phrases ahead of time. Here?...
...Senate adviser handled issues of military intervention in the Balkans and Somalia. And one of Obama's top campaign advisors, Susan Rice, has in the course of her work at the Brookings Institution produced, with Stewart Patrick of the Center for Global Development, a 50-page index of weak states that ranks 141 developing countries according to 20 factors such incidence of coups, GDP growth and primary school completion. The idea is to define state weakness in a way that identifies problem countries, and shows which areas in them need the most attention...
...study conducted at New York University’s Center on Law and Security further bolsters the assertion that American interventionism has increased the prevalence of terrorism. Data from the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) database, a public index of terrorist incidents established after the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, informed this research. Following the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the study reported a 607 percent rise in the average annual occurrence of jihadist attacks worldwide and a 237 percent rise in the average fatality rate from those attacks. The bulk of this increase occurred in Afghanistan...
...cell of a spreadsheet has become a fatal flaw.And now the culture of quantification has leached down to the practice of everyday learning, with the exploding popularity of several new student-made web tools that offer a searchable directory of courses by their scores on the Q evaluation index. These web tools distort an already skewed view of academics at Harvard by contributing to a culture that values quantity at the expense of quality.In a less-enlightened day, students once browsed through the Courses of Instruction looking for classes whose descriptions were sympathetic to their own interests, perhaps checking afterwards...