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...malleable of the categories. The guidelines of the Academic Index mandate that all admitted students have an AI score of at least 171, and that the average AI of all of the school’s athletes, not including football, which operates under a more complicated AI-based system, land within one standard deviation of the mean AI of the entire student body.Amaker cannot navigate around these regulations: If Frank Ben-Eze, the reported prize of his incoming freshman class, does not bump his AI up to 171, he will not be admitted to the Class of 2012 next month...
...official who until now has been Washington's point man in handling the Iranian nuclear issue - U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns, who left office last week - has made clear that the standoff will land on the desk of the next U.S. President rather than being resolved under the Bush Administration. "I think this is going to be a drama that plays out well into 2009 and beyond," Burns told the Council on Foreign Relations last week. He added, "There's plenty of room for this type of diplomacy, both sanctions as well as the positive offers of negotiations. That...
...this comes even as military-to-military relations are improving. Of course, there was nowhere to go but up after the U.S. mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, and after China forced a U.S. Navy spy plane to land on China's Hainan Island in 2001 and held its 24-person crew for 11 days. Admiral Timothy Keating, chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, said that relations were improving during his recent visit to Beijing. "We're getting to know these guys," he said. But he stressed the need for the Chinese to be more open concerning...
...began her tournament run Friday afternoon with an easy, 9-1, 9-3, 9-2 victory over Hamilton’s Kelly Whipple. She continued her strong play on day two with victories over Tara Wadhwa and Jessica Balderston, both of Yale, 3-0 and 3-1, respectively, to land a spot in Sunday’s semifinals. After falling behind 2-0 in her semifinal match against Princeton’s Mary O’Toole Sunday, Snyder stormed back to seize control and won in five...
...Dade County police force could have defeated the Colombian military. Back then, in fact, the Marxist guerrillas of the FARC had the upper hand in Colombia's four-decade-old civil war. But since Uribe took office in 2002, the armed forces have grown and modernized impressively enough to land body blows against the FARC, as demonstrated by Reyes' stunning demise. Chavez may have spent $4 billion over the past decade to buy everything from AK-47 rifles to Russian Sukhoi fighter planes, but the Venezuelan armed forces haven't seen real action since Chavez himself, then an army paratrooper...