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...that recent applicants are more informed about college in general and are asking more questions about Harvard’s atmosphere rather than details about the application process.“I think that’s great because what’s really important is not how many Nobel Prize winners are on staff but that you’re going to be at a place where you’re happy and comfortable,” said Thompson. “I’ve loved my time at Harvard, it’s amazing, but it?...
DIED. HENRY TAUBE, 89, Stanford University chemist whose studies of how electrons move between molecules during chemical reactions illuminated the workings of such important processes as photosynthesis and engine combustion and won him the 1983 Nobel Prize; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Despite boasting perennial nobel candidate and literary giant Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's best-known cultural stars tend to spring from the small screen. So when a 27-year-old with a keen eye and quick wit penned a devastating examination of some of the country's most taboo subjects, it wasn't just the critics who were amazed. The only thing rarer than a female author in Indonesia is a best-selling one, a distinction Ayu Utami earned after the 1998 release of her first novel, Saman. The book, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been...
...slide, world economic growth has been more buoyant than at any time in the past three decades. Some experts, including those who support further trade liberalization, say that the damage may be limited if Doha fizzles. Joseph Stiglitz, a former World Bank chief economist who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2001, points out that one of the key advances of the Uruguay Round was the establishment of an international rule of law for trade and a body to enforce it?the WTO itself. It has delivered some stinging blows to both the European Union and the U.S., including...
...prove, empirically, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Yale sucks. A lot. So, to Harvard students: pat yourselves on the back, like you do every morning. Yalies: weep. THE STATS Rhodes Scholars, 1947-2005 Harvard: 315 Yale: 163 Edge: Harvard, though we wish we had Bill Clinton. Affiliated Nobel Prize Winners Harvard: 75 Yale: 23 Edge: Harvard; world peace. Number of sitting Supreme Court Justices educated Harvard: 6 Yale: 1 Edge: Harvard, and also a certain Yale alumnus (see Bush v. Gore, 2000). Number of U.S. Presidents educated Harvard: 7 Yale: 5 Edge: Harvard; free society. Real Estate Holdings...