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Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert P. Mitchell said that while it is “always nice to be recognized” in US News and World Reports top rankings, “students should not select a college based on any rankings, students really need to think about what is best for their needs...
...Each semester [brings] a different group of people, and each semester is influenced by the political realities of that time," said IOP Director Bill P. Purcell, noting that the IOP has welcomed over 500 political practitioners to Harvard since the fellowship program's inception in 1966. "This group is really ideally suited to our students in this particular year and time...
...Even so, owing to the inhospitable terrain and the altitude, the risks remain high. And with the advance team not expected to have potentially reached him before Saturday, there were no guarantees that Pérez - whom no one has had any contact with since Novallón descended - is still alive...
...Campbell, who himself has climbed four Himalayan peaks, says he's worried for everyone involved: "Fabrizio is putting himself at great risk. Pérez, if he's a strong young climber, might survive. But someone who has been trapped at 6,000 meters for five or six nights is probably slowly dying." (See pictures of triumph and tragedy on the world's highest mountain, Everest...
...story has gripped the Spanish. Over the past few days, it has been the front page of most of the national papers, and headlines Thursday announced that Secretary of State for Sports Jaime Lissavetsky was "optimistic" that Pérez would be saved within 48 hours. But everyone remains tense. "If we pull this rescue off," says Peña Guara's Uriel, "it'll be a milestone in the history of climbing." Sadly for all concerned, it doesn't look as if that milestone will be attained...