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Harvard has been ranked as the #1 school to become a snob, the #2 school to meet a future spouse, the #2 school to make connections, #2 for "gourmet cuisine," (what?) the #3 school where you will go broke, #4 prettiest campus, and #6 most politically active in the recent rankings released by College-Admission-Essay.com. Somehow Harvard doesn't make "The Top 10 Schools That Are More Intense than a Pressure Cooker," while Duke and Stanford are ranked...
From 9-11:30 a.m., the team will hold a morning practice available for public consumption. Make your way across the river to Harvard’s high school gymnasium (er, Lavietes Pavilion) to catch a glimpse of a Crimson squad much improved from last year. Old favorites like co-captains Jeremy Lin and Doug Miller will be dominating inside and out, and a couple of star rookies will be making their debuts too. Check out some video of the studs of the class of 2013, as well as the identity of the day’s special guest, after...
...legal-aid-service organizations to help tackle the backlog of cases - more than 50,000 foreclosure filings so far this year in Miami-Dade County alone. Many homeowners don't know what legal defenses are available to them as they battle lenders to keep their properties - or at least make foreclosure less painful and less costly. "Potentially, one of the most significant [defenses] is that the lender, because so many home loans were securitized during the housing boom, often doesn't even know who owns the mortgage anymore," says Froomkin. That, he adds, could throw into question the lender...
...completely Draconian," says Vernadette Gonzalez, whose 5-year-old daughter, Inez Anderson, is a kindergartner at Noelani. "People are shocked when they hear that this was allowed, or even considered as a sane solution to the budget crisis." Gonzalez fears that students will not be able to make up for the lost school time, noting that teachers are struggling to adapt their lesson plans. "It's not only passing on the cost to the parents but to the kids," she said. "They're getting a second-rate education." (See a story about a chance encounter with Obama in Hawaii...
...rounds for her AK-47, the rifle she calls "my baby" because "it kicks just a little bit and has a deep sound." But there was nothing deadly about her ammo: the shell casings were affixed with pencil points. "The point being," the novelist explained, "that we should make our pencils our bullets...