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...school’s wide-open application process might seem paradoxical to some, especially when considered in the context of many of the University’s other schools, which have fought diligently for decades to maintain the nation??s most statistically exacting admissions standards. Last year, the College, for instance, admitted a mere 7.1 percent of applicants. Harvard Law School typically admits 11 percent of applicants, and Harvard Medical School admits just over 3 percent of candidates seeking admission...
...from current economic distress that has crippled investors’ access to capital—a key driver of gains in that sector. Harvard would not be alone if it did unload much of its private-equity portfolio, according to The Journal. The newspaper reported that the nation??s largest public pension fund—the $189.6 billion California Public Employees Retirement System–has requested that private-equity firms “ease off” of demands for capital that the fund had previously promised...
Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, will be the nation??s first black president. A graduate of Harvard Law School, the first-term Illinois senator’s win capped off a meteoric rise in which he ascended from the Illinois State Senate to the White House in less than five years...
...fact that [Dumaine] exists is fascinating and very encouraging,” Schrag said, indicating that the deputy director’s awareness that the environment potentially “poses a huge risk” to the nation??s security was a rare trait...
...Sunstein, who is the nation??s most-cited law professor, joined the Harvard faculty this fall. In addition to advising the Obama campaign, Sunstein is also a the senator’s close friend and former colleague from their days at the University of Chicago Law School...