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...Harvard in a New Light As a medical student very much intent on going to Harvard Medical School, I read with interest Nicholas Lemann's Essay on how ?lite American universities serve faculty better than students [March 6]. In Nigeria, where I study, there is a great dichotomy between students and lecturers that is aggravated when the latter are given preferential treatment, no matter what their flaws. Even though Harvard's lecturers might be highly qualified scholars, I had to re-evaluate my expectation of enjoying a better relationship with them after reading Lemann's Essay. It was enlightening news...
...nobody out in the second inning, Matt Kramer slid hard into the base to break up the possible double play. It worked, too: the fielder made no throw and Harvard went on to plate four in the frame, building an insurmountable 7-0 advantage. Kramer had no visible malicious intent on the slide. He didn’t stray from the baseline or lash out with his cleats. As Kramer put it, it was “just a hard play.”Nevertheless, Lions skipper Brett Boretti stormed onto the field and conducted a lengthy tete a tete...
...door and asked the individual if he owned the vehicle and he said he did not. The officer then observed what appeared to be urine inside the motor vehicle. Caleb Vogel, 19, of Cambridge, MA, was then placed under arrest and charged with breaking and entering a vehicle with intent to commit a felony and malicious damage to a motor vehicle...
Charles Miller, the chair of the Secretary of Education’s Commission of the Future of Higher Education, wrote in an e-mail to fellow commission members last month that there was “no intent, no expectation” to mandate standardized testing of college students, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday...
...Agency for International Development (USAID), fall in between. USAID’s West Bank/Gaza budget of $225 million, which includes providing equipment for Palestinian schools, micro-finance loans for entrepreneurs, and rule-of-law forums for Palestinian judges, is being reassessed by the Bush administration with the intent of cutting off any aid that could benefit the Palestinian government...