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Daniel Golden reveals in “The Price of Admission” that Harvard admissions officers rank “Asian American candidates on average below whites in ‘personal qualities,’” as well as frequently comment that they are “‘quiet/shy” and “hard workers.” Without evidence to substantiate these generalizations, these comments smack of a self-fulfilling stereotype: Admissions officers expect Asian applicants to have such qualities, and therefore see these in them more so than they...

Author: By Deborah Y. Ho and Shayak Sarkar | Title: Convenient Elitism | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham - who is in prison after being convicted for his role in a very different scandal, involving alleged seven-figure payoffs by defense contractors - the way Congress handles the Hastings saga should shine still more light on problems with how the two parties appoint and reappoint rank-and-file members of such a sensitive committee. If Democrats found Hastings fit to serve as a member of the intelligence committee at all, many would argue, they should be able to consider him for the chairmanship. As a panel member, Hastings has been deeply immersed in classified information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pelosi's Next Big Call | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

...Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham - who is in prison after being convicted for his role in a very different scandal, involving alleged seven-figure payoffs by defense contractors - the way Congress handles the Hastings saga should shine still more light on problems with how the two parties appoint and reappoint rank-and-file members of such a sensitive committee. If Democrats found Hastings fit to serve as a member of the intelligence committee at all, many would argue, they should be able to consider him for the chairmanship. As a panel member, Hastings has been deeply immersed in classified information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pelosi's Next Big Call | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

...Rank: 1 Last Week: 54 Funkytown I’ll take a one way ticket to that place Rank: 2 Last Week: - Cookie cakes Larger than normal cookies, both in size and deliciousness; larger than the occasional cake Rank: 3 Last Week: 2 Yeah, that’s my gf Now I am going to fuck you up real good Rank: 4 Last Week: - Eye for an eye A frustrating transaction with a blind person Rank: 5 Last Week: - The 2006 elections Wait’ll you see my dick

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FM Top 5 | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

...classic story collection about the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien wrote that what G.I.'s carried into battle was determined by necessity, specialty and rank, and "to some extent by superstition." Three decades later, the 145,000 Americans serving in Iraq rely on their own talismans to protect them from the barrage of sniper bullets, mortar fire and roadside bombs that have claimed the lives of more than 2,700 of their comrades. The Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment spent much of this year deployed in Ramadi, the heart of the Sunni Triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Things They Carry | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

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