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...might seem paradoxical to some, especially when considered in the context of many of the University’s other schools, which have fought diligently for decades to maintain the nation’s most statistically exacting admissions standards. Last year, the College, for instance, admitted a mere 7.1 percent of applicants. Harvard Law School typically admits 11 percent of applicants, and Harvard Medical School admits just over 3 percent of candidates seeking admission...
Belgian brewers, Tod said, typically make use of aromatics like orange peel and coriander for flavor, adding candy sugar to produce an elevated average alcohol content of nine percent...
...After a couple years of academic planning by Bloom’s associate deans, the School of Public Health rolled out an alternative, case-based core curriculum this fall for its first-year students. Already, about 40 percent of the 150 first-year students opted to study under the new curriculum...
Many Harvard experts have predicted that today’s presidential election will bring a certain victory for Barack Obama. The national election polls yesterday showed Obama leading by a margin of about 10 percent. And Harvard pundits from the College, the Kennedy School, the Law School, and the Institute of Politics said in e-mailed statements that this lead was unlikely to disappear when ballots were cast today. Government and African and African American Studies professor Jennifer L. Hochschild said, “Obama will win (no surprise!).” Cass R. Sunstein...
...California. But in a year featuring record housing foreclosures, massive job losses and the prospect of the Big Three Automakers downsizing to the Nearly Bankrupt Two, maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that Michigan residents want to try something different. Some cities are predicting as many as 80 percent to 90 percent of those registered will vote. Election officials have added booths and volunteers, but are cautioning voters to be patient, and plan to wait in line...