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...from the Mid-Atlantic and the South. The admissions office said it did not yet have complete statistics on the number of minority applicants this year, “but the numbers of African American and Latino applicants already exceed last year’s totals by a considerable margin...
...admissions office said it did not yet have complete statistics on the number of minority applicants this year, "but the numbers of African American and Latino applicants already exceed last year’s totals by a considerable margin...
...heavily wrapped.“Pat’s been as good as anybody for us and had been consistent,” Amaker said. “We’re the type of team where we need everybody, and we don’t have a large margin of error. Certainly, not having one of our better players didn’t help us.”A week ago, the Crimson took a 47-26 lead into the half, but this time it entered the half down, 36-26. Despite several brief spurts in the second half...
...presidential election, China fired missiles into the strait that separates the island from the mainland in an attempt to bully voters into not supporting the independence-leaning candidate Lee Teng-hui. The act had the opposite effect and instead helped boost support for Lee; he won by a large margin. Since then Beijing has slowly been learning its lesson. "Whenever Taiwan has a big election, if Beijing makes a remark about local politics in Taiwan [it] will have a counterproductive effect," says Andrew Yang, secretary general of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, a Taipei-based think tank...
CEOs who scored high on measures of power - competence, dominance and facial maturity - and on a measure of leadership were in many cases the ones who ran companies with the biggest overall profits. (The study looked at profit, not profit margin, but controlled for firm size.) On the other hand, executives who were rated highly on measures of warmth, such as likeability and trustworthiness, didn?t necessarily match up with successful companies. Boards of directors take note: "There's no relationship between how trustworthy a person seems and how well the company does," says Nicholas Rule, a doctoral candidate...