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...says of Stewart’s outburst and its ilk.Despite this strident, demanding stance, Rees does not seem preachy in conversation. He frequently brings up a struggle to avoid self-righteousness, and he is self-deprecating with regard to his own successes.Rees estimates that “maybe ten percent?? of GYWO strips achieve that flash of honesty he looks for.“That leaves a lot of filler,” he says.FUTURE UNCERTAINIn early 2002, Rees published a GYWO strip that, like many others, featured two nameless office workers talking on the telephone?...
...athletes, two categories that are filled almost entirely by white students. Despite the lower rate of admission—The Crimson reported that for the Class of 1995, Asians were admitted at a 17 percent rate, whites at 19 percent, Hispanics at 20 percent, and black students at 32 percent??the population of Asian students at Harvard has dropped only slightly from a high of a full fifth of the student body in 1992 to about 17.7 percent now. Asians made up 3.6 percent of the national population in the 2000, and that figure is rising, according...
...Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has ranked Harvard first in terms of black student yield for the third year in a row. Harvard’s black student yield for the Class of 2010—70.9 percent??is still 9.1 percent lower than its overall yield rate of 80 percent. The University slipped from second to fifth place in the ranking in terms of black student enrollment as a percent of the entire class. Black students comprised 9.3 percent of both the Class of 2009 and 2010, The Crimson reported. The University of North Carolina...
Most preliminary counts show 60-year-old Daniel Ortega, who served as the Nicaraguan president from 1985 to 1990, as having already won 40 percent??the minimum a candidate needs to win an election in one round. If those counts are verified by electoral officials, Montealegre will not have the chance to challenge Ortega in a second round...
...then-President Lawrence H. Summers travelled to India for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a new Harvard office in Mumbai. Meanwhile, students from both those countries are coming to U.S. schools in greater numbers. The Council of Graduate Schools study found that first-time enrollment from India grew 32 percent??the fastest rate of any country—followed by China at 20 percent. The large gain for China is “particularly noteworthy” because enrollment fell 8 percent in 2004, and only increased 3 percent in 2005, according to the report. Harvard...