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...fastest growing demographic this year was Native American students, with a nine percent increase in enrollment. In the last decade, Hispanic students have also increased their presence, becoming the fastest-growing minority group overall...
...Center, Gergen noted that Leslie and Abigail Wexner have been the institution’s largest overall benefactors. Leslie Wexner is the CEO of The Limited, a women’s clothing chain. The couple contributes $2.1 million annually to the Center, pledged over a period of nine years, according to Gergen. —Staff writer David K. Hausman can be reached at dhausman@fas.harvard.edu...
...press attention that so often attends it. One British tabloid dubbed it the "village of the doomed"; other accounts darkly suggested the community may be cursed. The reason: six village residents have committed suicide during the past 12 months, a staggering figure in a nation that averages fewer than nine suicides per 100,000 people. Dr. Hynek Pikhart, a professor of statistics and epidemiology at University College, London, estimates the chance of a community Gnosall's size enduring six suicides in a single year to be less than 0.001%. Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of this torrent of disaster...
Until recently, Venezuela's opposition was so weak and fragmented it seemed unable to even fathom an electoral victory. But, in the early morning hours on Monday, it sealed a surprising triumph over the constitutional reform proposal of a President who, in nine years, had never lost an election. Scrambling to explain this aberration in a land where Hugo Chavez dominates the political landscape, many political observers point to the thousands of university students, who, dormant until this year, clogged the streets to protest the reform in the weeks leading up to the vote. Raul Baduel, the former defense minister...
...winning streak to eight games with a 5-2 triumph over the Engineers.After a 16-mile bus ride west, six different Harvard skaters scored in a 6-0 victory over bottom-dwelling Union (1-13-0, 0-6-0) in Schenectady. HARVARD 6, UNION 0 Just nine games into the season and nine Harvard players have multiple goals to their names.Offensive output from a multitude of sources is a recurring theme for this year’s Crimson squad—and Saturday’s win over Union was certainly no exception.“One of the things...