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...That was a bogus protest," said Harvard coxswain Devin Mahony, who became the first female cox ever to win the Grand Challenge Cup. Princeton withdrew its complaint because there are no formal rules regarding the placement of the extra weight, only customs...
...letter specifically calls for overall changes in medical school admissions policy, including a provision to allow Advanced Placement (AP) test scores in chemistry and physics to count toward admissions requirements. Herschbach, chairman of the Curriculum Committee in Chemistry, sees these reforms as steps in a "larger campaign to encourage medical schools to define admissions criteria by content, not by 'units...
...compatible groups, Harvard's careful placement system is far from flawless. In fact, graduates of the Yard have also speculated that Freshman Dean's Office uses such criteria as first names, bicep measurements and predisposition to caffeine addiction in determining rooming groups. Officials, however, contend that such random attributes usually aren't given consideration, even though coincidental similarities might surface...
...work as personal, even as obsessive, as that of Ingmar Bergman, David Lean or any other monarch of cinema academe. Spielberg the director is supposed to be a movie machine, and if that is so, fine. We need more artisans with his acute eye and gift for camera placement and movement, lighting, editing and the care and feeding of actors. But he is also a compulsive teller of stories about himself as he once was and still is. Each new film he directs or oversees is like another chapter in the autobiography of a modern Peter...
...layoffs were handled with some of the same generosity that marked Apple's employee relations during its high-growth years. Instead of issuing a single terse announcement to all workers, Apple supervisors individually informed many of those who were being let go. The computer maker also opened a placement center and staffed it with newly hired consultants. Free for all resume writers: use of Apple's Macintosh computers and high- quality printers...