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With a record-high 22,276 applicants, admission to the College became more selective than ever. Of that pool, 2,074 were accepted, driving down the acceptance rate to 9.1 percent, the lowest in the school’s history...
...financial aid initiative, on the strength of the applicant pool and the people we were able to accept, has been a great success,” he says...
...Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change] we tried to make even the choice of materials and the form of the building relate to Dr. King’s life and mission. Though his crypt is on the site, it is in a pool of water. Movement of water is meant to represent a continuation of life and the struggle for human rights,” Bond says...
...American theater, to speak in sunny, New Age banalities. And he knows that anyone familiar with his work probably wouldn't believe him, anyway. After all, he's the guy who wrote The Distance From Here, in which a teenager drowns a baby in a penguin pool; The Shape of Things, in which a student manipulates her boyfriend into changing his appearance and ditching his friends for a college art project; and The Mercy Seat, in which a man uses the 9/11 attacks as a cover to disappear with his mistress. LaBute refuses to judge any of his characters...
...with little disposable income isn't capitalist exploitation. In fact, tapping the spending power of the poor can reduce poverty, he maintains. Expansion by multinationals into new markets creates new jobs and income earned from those jobs ripples through local economies, creating more new jobs. "This creates a large pool of individual entrepreneurs who are participating in an expanded economy," says Prahalad. "The company makes more profit, and the people's lifestyle changes." The poor also benefit because they have access to services such as banking and insurance that once were denied them, he says. But marketing to the poor...