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Arguably, there are benefits that come with preferring legacies and athletes, but these come at the cost of not only rejecting well qualified Asian applicants but also admitting a more diverse candidate pool. Karabel reports in “The Chosen” that 40 percent of legacies were admitted in 2002 compared to 11 percent of other applicants. There is a bias here that is not simply based on merit: While one might argue that legacy admits are simply correlated with better qualifications, high-performing Asian Americans are suffering the opposite of this kind of preferential admission...
...angle from beneath the long, cantilevered upper story, the room culminates in a window wall that looks down directly onto the surface of Boston Harbor, roughly 40 ft. below. The result is the kind of view you might get by looking down onto the surface of a pool through a diving mask: a horizonless sheet of water that fills the entire rectangle...
...nominations, after all, don't simply drop out of the sky. Winslet knows how to work the awards crowd, taking her fast, frank and low-falutin' self to the requisite meet and greets, especially those with the actor groups, who make up the largest part of the Academy voting pool...
...Billings ’07, Casey N. Cep ’07, Brad M. Smith ’05, Parvinder S. Thiara ’07, Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, and Elise D. Wang ’07 were among the 32 scholars chosen from a pool of 896 candidates. The six will begin study at Oxford University next October...
...Harvard women’s swimming and diving team found the perfect baby shower gift for Crimson coach Stephanie Morawski in a commanding 193-102 win over Columbia on Friday night at Blodgett pool. Morawski returned to the pool deck for the first time since giving birth to a baby in early November to coach her team to its fifth win of the season and remarkable 25th straight dual-meet win. “They did a great job,” Morawski said. “They are very spirited and it came out in their racing...