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Whom, then, will this change help? Only the admissions office, which is acting, it seems, out of a selfish desire to move up a notch or two in meaningless college guides by improving its yield. But that yield is already astronomically high. This move bespeaks that most un-Harvard of qualities: insecurity. If Harvard is afraid that competitors like Yale and Stanford, both of which recently switched from binding to non-binding early admissions policies, will snatch up its best applicants, surely the answer is not to put a further stranglehold on those students. A school with our prestige...
...half ended with Crimson sophomore midfielder Rory Edwards receiving a long pass from the defense. All alone in front of the Quaker net, she stood poised to take her shot when the buzzer blared. Other than some frantic attempts in the final few meaningless minutes of the game, it would be the Crimson’s last serious scoring threat...
...Gusm?o, the best way is economic development. "It will be meaningless if we have all the perpetrators in jail, but the people continue to face infant mortality, endemic and epidemic diseases, without a decent home, without clean water and food," he said on Feb. 17. Gusm?o argues Indonesia is the key to such growth. The U.N. mission in East Timor agrees. Says mission chief Kamalesh Sharma: "I'm hopeful that the maturity of relations between both countries would insulate them from the trials and tribulations of the independent decisions of a judicial process...
...accessible to all voters—the commission’s web site, for example. A single source of information on substantive issues could dramatically transform the nature of campaigns; with voters better informed, candidates could concentrate more energy on debating the issues, rather than garnering name recognition with meaningless fliers...
...second thing is, obviously, that he could draw like an angel. The idea that he was "the greatest" Italian draftsman of his time (born in 1452, he died at a considerable age in exile in France in 1519) is essentially meaningless, because the late 15th and early 16th centuries were full of astonishing performers on paper. But not even contemporaries like Michelangelo were able to exceed, or regularly rival, him as a master of the kind of expressive and descriptive line that one sees in such drawings of his as the studies for equestrian sculpture or in his astounding anatomical...