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...where she's often watched the iconic ball descend to herald each New Year, "it's amazing to think something would happen here." As uniformed military personnel ducked in and out of the recruiting office, the poster of Uncle Sam maintained his familiar pose - eyes fixed on prospective recruits, index finger outstretched, issuing his trademark beckoning call: "I Want You." But to Damian Brown, 31, peering at the scene from across the street, the blast conveyed the opposite message. "Time to bring those boys home," he says quietly...
...college students who are watching what they eat go from healthy to unhealthy?THE HARVARD GUIDE TO FOODThe latest trend in university dining halls is to make the nutritional information of every dish more accessible. For the past 10 years, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has placed individual index cards next to each dish detailing food figures such as grams of fat, serving size, and most prominently, number of calories.“HUDS has always been motivated by one thing: how best to serve our students,” says Adams House dining hall manager David A. Seley...
...this is a good thing.None of this, however, means that Harvard is planning to slip below the lofty codified “standards” for admitting basketball players. It can’t. The Ivy League has a strict system based on a formula known as the Academic Index to govern the admission of athletes. An individual’s AI score is computed on a 240-point scale, with 80 points apiece based on SAT I scores, SAT II scores, and class rank, the most malleable of the categories. The guidelines of the Academic Index mandate that...
...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...
...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...