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Harvard admissions officers say they choose to “Z” students—it’s a verb—when there is a consensus that the College cannot bear to reject them but there is simply no bed available for them immediately after they graduate high school...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

Universities receive most of their financial support from dedicated alumni, whose goodwill can be compromised if their children are rejected. It is only by virtue of Harvard’s popularity and prestige that it can afford to reject the majority of legacy applicants...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

Universities receive most of their financial support from dedicated alumni, whose goodwill can be compromised if their children are rejected. It is only by virtue of Harvard’s popularity and prestige that it can afford to reject the majority of legacy applicants...

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Door to the Yard | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...electoral party. The question now is how the fractious collection of mostly neophyte politicians on his ticket will handle that bitter victory without him to lead them. The challenge is no less daunting for the established parties, confronted by an inchoate taste for change among an electorate keen to reject the politics of accommodation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Shock | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...comes unstuck when there's a peace to be brokered. Nowhere is that more true than at the right-wing end of the country's political spectrum. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was dealt a cruel political blow by his own party early on Monday, when the Likud Central Committee rejected his pleas to consider the diplomatic consequences and voted almost unanimously to reject Palestinian statehood in the West Bank. Although the vote simply restated longstanding Likud policy, it was a calculated bid by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unseat Sharon. Netanyahu's calculation: The vote will make Sharon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Likud Vote Changes Little in Mideast Equation | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

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