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...These costs, unfortunately, aren’t just a minor inconvenience—they’re a significant barrier to entry. These exorbitant fees effectively discourage students from low-income backgrounds from becoming doctors, reducing both the diversity and size of the applicant pool. This is a problem that disproportionately affects blacks and Hispanics—minorities that are already grossly underrepresented in health care...
Away from the friendly confines of Blodgett Pool, the Harvard men’s water polo team stumbled this past weekend at the ECAC Championships, suffering its first multi-loss weekend of the season to finish in eighth place.Coming off an impressive comeback win against MIT, the team lost a bit of luster in foreign waters, losing two games on Saturday against Princeton and Johns Hopkins, 10-8 and 13-11, respectively.The frustration continued yesterday, as the Crimson finished the weekend with its largest margin of defeat, falling 17-11 to George Washington.Marked by offensive inconsistency and an unusual number...
...comedian while attending Queens College in the 1970s. "'That's not the water Mr. Seinfeld prefers, you idiot'-I just wanted to get away from that. I missed people yelling at me and treating me like a regular guy." After a few months of doing not much besides playing pool every afternoon at a billiards hall on the Upper West Side, Seinfeld decided to return to being a stand-up comic. During his years of working on the show in Los Angeles, he says, he longed for the "griminess of the stand-up world." Even today, he says, "whenever...
...Allston residents head to the polls today to narrow the pool of candidates vying to be their next city councillor, Harvard’s much-anticipated expansion into the area has emerged at the center of the debate...
...Cutting the minimum in half, from .75% to .375%, sounds like real progress, right? But it turns out that, while the new formula reduces the percentage, it starts with a much bigger pool. The minimum percentage, as written into the law, is now a percentage of state grants plus something called the Urban-Area Security Initiative, a separate program dedicated to high-risk cities. That program accounted for $747 million in 2007. So the impact of the lower percentage is undercut by the use of a much bigger denominator, notes the report, authored by CRS employees Shawn Reese and Steven...