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...read “Do I make you look fat?” Though not in the best taste, such items are unlikely to actually create instant image problems among viewers.In terms of T-shirt acceptance, the cultural elite among us, as well as the rather easily offended in Pennsylvania, could benefit from a few lessons. The Golden Rule? “Hate the T-shirt wearer, not the T-shirt.”The most obnoxious of phrases can be worn in a humorous way; it is the person inside the shirt who makes the statement annoying...
Harvard’s 3,546 international students ranked behind Columbia University (5,278) and the University of Pennsylvania (3,712) in the Ivy League, but was almost double the number of foreign students at Yale University...
They host traveling information sessions with representatives from Georgetown, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, and other peer schools. With “well over half” of applicants now applying online, according to Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, the admissions website has recently been revamped, adding interactive video, campus tours, and student testimonials...
...incumbent whose approval rating had sunk to 19% two years ago, still managed a 55% victory over Kathleen Brown. Illinois, Michigan and Ohio, big industrial states that were once Democratic the way Italy is Catholic, all elected Republicans to a second term. In the northeast, where Connecticut and Pennsylvania also went to the Republicans and Maine elected an independent, only Vermont will still have a Democrat in the statehouse come January. And in the Democrat's once solid South, a march to the G.O.P. climaxed with the narrow defeat of Alabama's Democratic Governor James Folsom Jr. by Fob James...
They generally take a softer approach on the conservative agenda. In Pennsylvania, Representative Tom Ridge won the election this year by claiming outsider status -- no easy trick for a six-term Congressman -- and supporting heavier use of the death penalty and an end to parole for criminals sentenced to life. Having done that, he could safely stick to middling stands on abortion rights and welfare reform. "My basic philosophy is a conservative one," says Ridge. "But I recognize there are times when government intervention is appropriate, much to the chagrin of some of my Republican counterparts...