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...admissions game is another area where people often vastly overestimate the disparity between the two schools. In their Pharisaic attempts to misrepresent reality, some might point to the fact that Harvard has drawn in the range of 370 to 380 National Merit Scholars each year, while Yale generally attracts “only” about 150. They might stress that Harvard generally triples or quadruples Yale in most other such programs, including Presidential Scholars, USA Today high school All- Academic Team members, and National Achievement Scholars, etc. They might mention that close to 80 percent of the students that...
...decorations for hismilitary service. But, says an Army official after reviewing Muhammad's personnel file, "all but one of them are basically awarded for just showing up." The exception is the Army Achievement Medal. Army officials have so far not been able to detail what he did to merit that decoration...
Though he has never publicly commented on what happened in his meeting with West, one would suppose that Summers had some questions about the scholastic merit of West’s extracurricular activities, such as recording a spoken-word album, filming cameos for The Matrix sequels and advising the Rev. Al Sharpton on his potential 2004 presidential campaign. The conflict between Summers and West, among other things, was a clash between two different definitions of what it means to be a public intellectual...
Given the ready availability of the painkillers studied, possible associations with hypertension merit further study, the researchers said...
...rank of sergeant when he was honorably discharged nine years later. Most of his medals were those the military awards for showing up rather than for singular acts of soldiering, although the exception was his Army Achievement Medal. (Officials have not yet explained what he had done to merit the latter.) But one area in which Muhammad shone was his marksmanship. Although he was never trained as a sniper, Muhammad's Marksmanship Badge carried an "expert" rating - earned by the ability to hit 36 out of 40 targets at distances ranging from 25 to 300 meters. He was also designated...