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...funds useful things like stem cell research and financial aid. Selling our soul, prima facie, can be worth it—as long as we get the right price. The best way to do so is to have an auction. Unpalatable, perhaps, but certainly preferable to the status quo. Harvard already more or less sells admission to a select few, but the process is clothed in a variety of face-saving guises, all of them needlessly inefficient. Legacy preference, for example, gives the children of alumni what the admissions office website calls “a further look...
...alarming sentiments, it is unsurprising that all internal efforts have failed to bring peace. A 2004 ceasefire was soon violated, and a more recent peace agreement signed in Nigeria this past May received the support of just one of Darfur’s three major rebel groups. The status quo is unacceptable: 7,000 demoralized and often unpaid African Union troops are patrolling a region roughly the size of France. Without planes they are completely unable to enforce the no-fly zone mandated by UN Resolution 1591, even as the Sudanese Air Force carpet bombs villages suspected of housing rebels...
Ross said she hopes that by running, she will be providing a voice to citizens disillusioned with the status quo and raise awareness of her platform—which aims to abolish poverty, stop global warming, and bring Massachusetts troops home from Iraq...
...senior year. Stress for everyone is lessened and—more importantly—evened out across all applicants with a single notification date. Ultimately, we are glad that Harvard—and now Princeton and the University of Virginia—are taking this bold step. The status quo is simply not good enough. Applicants to Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and the like come disproportionately from private schools and wealthy backgrounds. For the most disadvantaged students, the complexities of college admissions can be overwhelming. Even if abolishing early admissions means inconveniencing a few—even many?...
...that starting a relationship, like invading Iraq, is deceptively easy—you always get more than you bargain for; and that breaking up, like “stabilizing” Iraq, is full of false endings, unexpected alliances, sectarian violence, and strange returns to the status quo.“Every time we kiss / we find ourselves in love again,” he croons on the last titled track. “The older that we get / we know that nothing else for us is possible / When I was quiet / I heard your voice in everything...