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Though enrollment numbers will not see any drastic changes, the admissions office is running ahead of the number of applications that it had received at this point last year, according to McGrath. She said that the overall increase in applications to the College over the past few years can be attributed in part to a greater value placed on a college education...
Originally, the administration had set a 1,000-person cap on the number of students who would be allowed to spend January in Harvard housing. We appreciate the flexibility of the College’s ultimate decision to admit more students who demonstrated legitimate needs (though the actual number on campus will never dramatically exceed 1,000 due to students’ different schedules). And, by any standard, the 93 percent of applicants accepted—which included students ranging from thesis writers to athletes to members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals—is an impressive number to accommodate...
...think we're really happy with it," McFadden said. "There's a large number of [artists], but I think we got a wide variety of them...
Most of these auctions are arranged by Southern Star Auctioneers, a Georgia company run by Dion Abadi, who has faced a number of official complaints and fines in recent years in multiple states. At one so-called Madoff auction held this fall in West Palm Beach, Fla. - a community hard hit by Madoff, who once owned houses and other property in nearby Palm Beach and who is now serving a 150-year prison sentence for his massive Ponzi scheme - many potential bidders exited fuming. "They all thought it was Madoff stuff, and it's not; it's from all over...
...that very clear. The Republicans have offered very specific ideas, such things as medical malpractice reform; they've talked about portability where you could buy insurance across state lines, they've talked about making sure there were incentives for people to go into general medical practice. There are a number of ways in which the system can be addressed that would get Republican support. Republicans have offered very definite, concrete ideas, but they're not being seriously considered. I think there has been no real attempt on the part of the Administration or particular leaders in Congress to make this...