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Lewis and Scalise expressed concerns about maintaining competitiveness in the face of directives from the presidents to increase academic standards, and presented Harvard’s plan to lessen the impact of seven weeks of rest time the presidents mandated last year...
...terrorist organization." "All my life I have had problems with this society," he wrote in his suicide note. "I feel as though I don't belong in this era." He concluded that a spectacular suicide was the only way to get "people to search their consciences and try to lessen the evil they commit every day." After parts of the note were published in the Czech media, Roman Másl read it and "his eyes were glowing when he told me about it," says Lucie Hlavínová, his confidante and schoolmate. "He admired what...
...years ago—is deeply unsettling. For the last several years, students applying to Harvard’s non-binding early action program have been able to simultaneously apply to other universities under similar non-binding programs. But now, in what can only seem a petty move to lessen paperwork and ratchet up admissions yield by a sliver of a percent, Harvard will not allow its early-action applicants to apply elsewhere on the early schedule. While not entirely destroying the immense benefits of a non-binding early admissions program, Harvard is acting entirely counter to its spirit...
...Hope springs eternal that the state department will try and address this. This is the kind of thing that continues to lessen our standing in the world, particularly among our friends,” he said...
...dented the capabilities of JI. In April, Indonesia will start the first trial in the Bali case, seeking to convict Amrozi, 40, who allegedly transported the bomb materials from Java to the resort island. And the capture of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, JI's sponsor in al-Qaeda, should also lessen the risk of further attacks in Asia. But the most dangerous man in JI is still at large: Hambali, the group's operations chief...