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...You’re not just taking the smartest people,” he says now. “You’re looking at lots of things.” Klitgaard says he still cannot provide a definitive answer as to why minorities lag behind but that this may be a drawback of affirmative action.“If elite universities did not compete so heavily for blacks these students might attend slightly lesser institutions where they might compete as intellectual equals,” the report stated.Although the Klitgaard Report also mentioned that Jewish students performed better than...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Questioned Diversity And Affirmative Action | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...that doesn't mean the pills are interchangeable. Melatonin works on a completely different neurological system than the prescription drugs and, as the study suggests, won't help you at night or if you experience insomnia because of something other than jet lag or a graveyard shift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Sleep All Day! | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...research center Rockefeller University, where professors get paid $172,800 on average, according to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Associate professors at Harvard average a $97,100 salary, and assistant professors garner $87,300 in pay, according to the AAUP data. Harvard’s traditional rivals lag far behind, with Yale University ranking sixth on the list—as professors net an average salary of $151,200. Princeton University can boast a third-place finish with average full-professor pay of $156,800 a year. But while Yale ranks behind Harvard, professors in New Haven receive...

Author: By Magnus Grimeland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Profs Net $169K | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...muffled backstage, making it very difficult for the actors to listen to it during the performance.While Commins tried to improve the musical and acoustical aspect of the production by tailoring the songs to the vocal range of the actors and reducing the size of the orchestra, the lag between the singers and the ensemble was, at times, noticeable.While professionalism and technical perfection were not expected from a production put together entirely by freshmen, the cast stimulated its audience by being consistently animated and engaging.Overall experimentally delightful, the show was not only a stretch for the capacities of the production team...

Author: By Rosa E. Beltran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amateur Acting, Witty Script | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...Harder to explain away is the hospital examination report. Defense lawyers will try to poke holes at it by searching for a lag time between the 911 call and the accuser's arrival at the hospital. The district attorney's office has not made public the police report stating time of arrival, and neither has the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Were Duke Players Victims of an E-Mail Sting? | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

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