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David Jeruzalmi, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and member of the selection committee for the prize, commented that although excellence in class must be the main factor, “overall, we look at the whole profile” of a student...
Cannon’s Harvard admission was deferred a year, and now that he’s back from his mission, he’s three years older than many people in his graduating class. Being so much older than his classmates was one of his main concerns, but Cannon says he doesn’t feel that out of place because he’s met a lot of Harvard students who have taken longer to graduate...
...addition to addressing fiscal concerns, the main focus of the Tea Party, Palin riled up the crowd with a cry for off-shore drilling...
...North Caucasus for the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo. It is a dramatic policy reversal. Just last year, Moscow was trying to create jobs and opportunities for young people while seeking to uproot the deep hatred many locals have for the police and federal government. Medvedev was the main advocate of this approach, but, says Baev, "he was not prepared for these kinds of terror attacks, and they seem to have changed his perspective. Whereas before he was highlighting the fact that he was a former lawyer and standing up for civil rights, now he hasn't mentioned once...
Alexander Cherkasov, a board member of Russia's main human rights organization, Memorial, agrees that Russia appears to be returning to a harshness similar to the time of the war in Chechnya. "We're seeing a shift away from things like mass arrests and harsh interrogations toward the tactic of simply eliminating terror suspects," he says before turning sardonic. "Yes, of course this implies human rights violations. But human rights have been sort of a moot point in these regions for some time, and they will continue...