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...geographical rotation and we favor the best-qualified candidate, wherever that candidate comes from. If the best-qualified person is an Asian, we'd be delighted. If the best-qualified person is from somewhere else, we'd be delighted at that too. Western Europe has had three Secretaries-General, Latin America has had one, Africa has had two, and Asia has had one. Eastern Europe has never had any. If there's really a principle of geographic rotation, fairness dictates that Eastern Europe...
...tracking areas of improvement.” Despite the officials’ optimism, Cambridge school principals expressed mixed feelings about the implementation of the new system. “The mark does need to be set at 100 percent for every student,” said Cambridge Rindge and Latin School principal Dr. Sybil Knight. “I certainly understand that perspective in making sure that all kids have equity in reaching academic goals.” Ronald F. Ferguson, the director of Harvard’s Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI), a research group that focuses on reducing performance...
...write-off a $2,000 loan.The concerns of David H. Garcia ’09, a student on financial aid, reflect the pressure that the summer savings expectation places on students interested in service-oriented summer opportunities. “I wanted to do an unpaid internship in Latin America, but another $2,000 is a lot of money,” Garcia explained. “I need to get a [paying] job.”Skeptics might suggest that Garcia has not considered all possible sources of revenue or that he does not view a $2,000 loan...
...reporters along one of the narrow, back corridors of the Vatican, which have marble floors and art hanging on the wall, saying, "That's the way." At one point, I was scolded for an unintentional and mysterious infraction. She said, "You understand English? Do you prefer me to use Latin? Spanish? Italian? No more 'Yes, ma'am'! I will call a Swiss Guard and have you removed" Apparently deciding the sin only was a venial one, she granted absolution by reaching in her black bag and handing over a color map and a fact sheet, with a businesslike smile...
...nestled perfectly among my tumbling curls, as I sway my hips during a sensual salsa with the film’s heartthrob, Diego Luna. After all, the heroine of “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” was a Radcliffe girl—I could find a sexy Latin lover too, right? But once I arrived, the Harvard side of my brain got the best of me. I spent more time thinking about Red nations than red dresses. Social Studies 10 forced me to spend most of fall semester critiquing modern commercial society and reading Adam Smith and Karl...