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...from the outside,” acknowledges WoW player Roland C. Nadler ’09.WoW is indeed a complicated game with, as Nadler describes it, its “own Tolkienesque lore.” Players create a level one character and complete various missions in order to push their characters up the ranks until they hit level 70. It’s a lot of work, but according to Nadler, “having a level 70 character is a bit of a status symbol among people who play videogames.”Anthony R. Casagrande...
...about 90 percent stay inside a 500-mile radius. He mused that stronger middle-income financial aid offerings were the only way to pull those students away from attractive offers from in-state schools. The heightened attention to financial aid for middle-income families has corresponded with a push to increase aid across the board—including for those students at the low end of the economic spectrum. The Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, created in 2004, requires no contribution from families that make under $60,000 and a greatly reduced contribution from those with incomes under $80,000. Last...
...Paul Short Run on Friday in Bethlehem, Pa. The men’s team finished 12th out of 41 teams, while the women placed 10th out of 47. In the men’s eight-kilometer race, the large field and 270 participating athletes forced the Crimson runners to push their limits. Coach Jason Saretsky stated that many of his athletes reported their best times ever in college. “I was pleased,” Saretsky said. “It was a good step.” Undaunted by the large numbers, the men?...
...Chrysler's overseas push also includes making more models available globally. In the U.K., for example, 18 models will be on offer by next year, up from six in 2003. Nevertheless, Chrysler cars still reflect the company's domestic orientation. "They're built for American drivers and U.S. conditions," Anwyl says, which could limit their appeal in foreign markets. But Manley says Chrysler began addressing that problem in 2003, when it started taking international needs into account. It's tripling the number of cars available with right-hand drive, for instance, and quadrupling to 16 the number with a diesel...
...leave an event when this person (mistakenly) thought I was questioning her without permission. That had never happened to me before. So when we finally sat down for our interview, I let Head talk. I didn't, to my regret, ask for specifics. I didn't want to push her to talk about things she wasn't ready to discuss. As a result, I never wrote about her extensively. But I did quote her in a TIME story about survivors three years ago. And I must admit I never once doubted the veracity of what she told me. The truth...