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...weeks after the installation of the word processors, the College began offering 20 to 30 percent discounts on IBM computers to students for the first time, setting up a showroom of $2,500 to $4,000 models on the sixth floor of the Holyoke Center...
...online student referendum called by Petersen, 84 percent of the 3,467 undergraduate votes cast were in favor of the proposal, and on June 6, Interim President Derek C. Bok announced that a University-wide calendar reform had been approved by Harvard’s governing boards. Petersen told The Crimson last year, “The undergraduates and the Undergraduate Council identified a problem and sought to address it, and the governing boards took our concerns seriously...
...report found that 86 percent of students were "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with their overall freshman experience, though ratings varied based on the aspect of student life being examined...
...recruit foster and adoptive parents who reflect the ethnic make-up of children in the system, even though the law says they must, so racial disparities have persisted within the family services system. Black children are adopted less frequently and more slowly than kids of any other race. Fifteen percent of U.S. children are black, but they account for nearly a third of children in foster care and a third of those awaiting adoption. White children are five times as likely as to be adopted than children from any minority group, and are adopted out of foster care an average...
...Friday before the 2004 presidential election, Osama bin Laden released a videotape slamming George W. Bush, which more than a few people took as a tacit endorsement of John Kerry. The CIA saw it differently, though. According to Ron Suskind's fine book, The One Percent Doctrine, Deputy Director John McLaughlin said, "Bin Laden certainly did a nice favor today for the President." It seemed obvious to the top CIA analysts that bin Laden wanted to keep Bush - who had let the terrorists off the hook in Afghanistan and launched the war in Iraq, a great recruiting tool...