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Capping off a year that saw a record number of early action applicants, early action acceptances and a near-record number of applicants overall, Harvard maintained its dominance in getting accepted students to enroll, with the highest yield among the nation's colleges at 79.7 percent, up 0.6 percent from last year...
Nguyen went to People's Republik, a bar on Mass Ave. near Central Square, to study whether men were more successful in picking up women when they were in groups or when they were alone...
Part of the strength the team drew upon was its symbolic association with the now-defunct Radcliffe College. The team does not plan on changing its name in the near future...
MOSCOW: Yevgeny Primakov hadn't done much to get the Russian economy on its feet again, but at least he had stopped the bleeding. So when Boris Yeltsin tore the Band-Aid off Wednesday, the rest of Europe recoiled. The euro dipped to near its all-time low, and indexes in Britain, France and Germany fell on the news that yet another Russian government had left and gone away...
Ouch. When even plays start to talk about whether plays are irrelevant, you know this is an art form in trouble. Yet the irony is that these lines are spoken in a play that is drawing near sellout crowds on Broadway and at the end of a season in which serious dramas have made a remarkable comeback. The new shows this season with the toughest tickets aren't the big splashy musicals (most of them were big splashy busts) but straight plays--especially revivals of two old-fashioned, slow-moving classics, Death of a Salesman and The Iceman Cometh...