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HERS2 is more efficient than its predecessor, according to Kenneth Ledeen '68, CEO of Nevo Technologies, Inc. Ledeen predicts that the new system will last Harvard for the next 20 years...
...UCLA had little concern for his job safety or adherence to a popularly passed law. In their eyes, Carnesale was their servant, accountable above all else to undergraduate sentiment. If Carnesale would not disobey the law, protesters reasoned, perhaps he could be urged to issue public statements, as his predecessor had, criticizing 209 as harmful to the rich ethnic and racial diversity of UCLA. Despite a student takeover of the main administrative building and raging protests in campus quads, however, Carnesale refused to buckle...
Gregory Johnson, spokesperson for The Princeton Review, a GRE preparation provider, said the computer-adaptive test tailors the body of questions to the individual taking the test, which he said makes it superior to its paper predecessor...
Unlike his predecessor James H. Rowe III '73, who was known for his political clout in Washington, the Williams College graduate is a veteran of local politics and city resource planning. His appointment leads many to speculate that Harvard is shifting its focus away from Washington and toward mending strained relations on the home front...
...understood, running over to shake the hands of the Marises, whose father had been resented for breaking Babe Ruth's record without a Babe Ruth career. McGwire spoke of Maris to the press, making sure his predecessor, on whom he probably only recently got briefed, finally got his due in memoriam. McGwire was making sure, even in his moment of pure exultation and relief, that he did the right thing. Hug son, hug teammates, hug ex-wife, hug Marises and, oh, yeah, touch first base...