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...Westerfield says. “You only get two. It wouldn’t make sense.” But if the recruit can score just 20 points higher on the test, he suddenly looks a lot more likely to line up at scrimmage next year. Given his class rank, a 1,250 would push him past the cutoff for the second band, which gets seven slots. An improvement to 1,330 would have an even bigger effect on his chances, pushing him into band number three, from which Harvard can take 13 players. “If [this] kid?...
...pragmatist. I want problem solvers in positions of power. It doesn't matter to me what their party affiliation is. Only the rank ideologues live under a label, and that's a very small percentage...
Imagine the worst restaurant you have ever been to on a first date. Double it. Double it again. Double it again. That’s how bad The Midwest Grill, an excellent Brazilian churrascaria in Inman Square, would be. In fact, this top-notch restaurant should rank only marginally higher on a list of dating venues than Taco Bell or the Dunster Dining Hall. Additionally, it is most definitely not a place to bring anorexics, vegetarians or anyone who has recently read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for tutorial. Nevertheless—or, perhaps, for exactly that reason?...
...seniors were given an opportunity to rank as many as 16 seniors out of an initial group of 75 on a website set up by Alumni Association. This year marks the first time the elections were held online...
...Some of the greatest pressure for change comes not from angry victims of police abuse but from rank-and-file officers, many of whom carry out their duties faithfully under difficult circumstances. A recent year-long internal police study conducted in Shandong province showed that beat cops work an average of 11 hours a day, with only one day off every three weeks. They're often called upon for unlikely duties, such as collecting fines from delinquent taxpayers and from violators of the one-child policy. And to top it off, they're woefully paid: salaries average...