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...Arnold. Over the course of his cinematic career, the five-time Mr. Universe and seven-time Mr. Olympia has undergone every sort of pain imaginable. He’s been tossed over waterfalls and blown to bits. Then there is the usual assortment of beatings and shootings that are par for the action-hero course. One thing’s for sure: Arnold always comes back. He takes a licking and keeps on kicking. Everything is fodder for this one-man Bosnia: He blasts his way to salvation, leaving more corpses in his wake than an Ebola epidemic. Villains...
...baseball team’s facilities have edged slightly closer to being on par with those of other Division I schools. Some area schools still have an advantage over Harvard. Boston College, for example, holds practices inside a bubble that extends over the school’s articial turf football stadium...
...Knowles provided to continue ongoing academic initiatives and pursue new priorities that will benefit undergraduate education. Summers has already said that he intends to place great emphasis on undergraduates, and his next dean of the Faculty should share this priority. To this end, reforming Harvard’s sub-par advising system must be one of the new dean’s prime objectives...
...combination of declining oil market share and exploding population has led per capita GDP to decline tremendously in Saudi Arabia over the last decade and a half. According to a recent New York Times article, per capita income has fallen from $28,000 in the early 1980s, on par with the United States, to under $7,000 today. But these still respectable figures mask extreme inequality. Much of the oil money is pilfered by the extravagant and rapidly growing—7,000 princes and counting—royal family...
Although he said Harvard is on par with other schools in awarding 50 percent A and A- grades, Summers said he is particularly concerned with honors inflation. The College awarded honors degrees to more than 90 percent of graduates last year...