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During Lowell’s tenure, Harvard was struggling with the problem of reducing its number of Jewish students, which had climbed to 27 percent of the student body by the mid-1920s. In order to quell this influx of smart, seemingly-qualified students, the admissions office instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender...
...With a turnout at least equal if not greater than that in the January elections, the new Iraqi constitution is poised to pass with strong Shi'ite and Kurdish support. But that is unlikely to quell the disgruntlement of Iraq's Sunnis, who make up the bulk of the insurgency. Despite the massive effort of the Sunni Arabs to defeat the constitution by marshalling a two-thirds "no" vote in three of Iraq's 18 provinces, it appears only two - Anbar and Salahudin - were able to meet that requirement. But early reports from Nineveh and Diyala left Sunnis crying fraud...
...square, killing at least one. Another rebel was cut off and took cover in a car in the middle of the square; hours later, hotel staff watched as he leapt out and sprinted under covering fire to the souvenir shop. While local forces called for more help to quell the assault, Moscow downplayed the drama. Four hours after the attack began, the Kremlin announced it was all over. But sporadic clashes erupted during the night, and the next morning, guerrillas were still inside the souvenir shop and held a police station. Eventually, a group of élite Russian Spetsnaz soldiers...
DISCORD Citizens in China rioted after Japan approved a text in April that calls acts of war, like the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, "incidents." Only 0.4% of schools use the book, and last week China and Japan began talks to quell such longtime tensions...
These white participants were welcomed with open arms, many times even given preferential treatment in the form of front-row seats and private pictures with dignitaries to quell any feelings of unease. I realized that many of the white guests at the festival, including the insulted Frenchman, truly understood the meaning of the event and their stake in the history that took place in the slave castle where we stood...