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Growing numbers of kids may be discovering that they no longer need Harvard, but according to Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden, the Ivies still feel a need for certain kinds of kids. Golden won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for his articles on the admissions advantage élite schools give to the children of alumni (known as legacies) and to the sons and daughters of big donors and celebrities. His book on that practice, The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, will be published...
...military withdrawal could lead to a regional conflagration. Rove may avert another electoral embarrassment this November with the same old demagoguery, but his strategy has betrayed the nation's best interests. It has destroyed any chance of a unified U.S. response to a crisis overseas. Even the Wall Street Journal's quasi-wingnut editorial page cautioned, in the midst of a typical anti-Democratic harrumph, "[No] President can maintain a war for long without any support from the opposition party; sooner or later his own party will begin to crack as well...
Sources: New York Times; AP; National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (2); AP (2); American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...
...response to the failure of three Harvard researchers to disclose their financial ties to companies related to their studies, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has modified its conflict of interest policy in an attempt to ensure full disclosure of such financial connections...
DeAngelis also wrote that Dean of the Medical School Joseph B. Martin told her that he will write and distribute a letter to all 8,000 Harvard Medical School faculty members describing the updated disclosure policies of both JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine...