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...Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) to protest Yale’s financial aid policies. The French had their Bastille; Yale had the OUA. A correlation between the storming of an unjust prison and a sit-in for fairer financial aid policies: coincidence? I think not. Yale rose up again in April, when graduate students set up a strike for teaching unions. This is like the March on Versailles for bread—a loud demand for better treatment, but, as we saw with the end of the strike in late April, an unsuccessful one. Add two and two together...
Overall, the number of students accepting Harvard’s offer of admission rose slightly this year, inching up a percentage point to 78.5 percent. Byerly accepted an all-time low 9.1 percent from a record applicant pool of 22,796. Ethnic and geographic demographics remained consistent with previous years. The Class of 2009 will include slightly more African-American and Native American students and slightly fewer Asian-Americans and Latinos...
...Tens of thousands of Georgians waited in hot sun for hours to hear Bush address them in Freedom Square, where in November 2003 the "Rose Revolution" transformed the country into a democracy. Bush hopes that in 10 or 15 years he may be the white-haired dignitary who stands on a similar stage, on an equally cloudless day, in Baghdad. There his successor will tell the story of the day when Saddam's statue, fell marking the start of that country's purple revolution...
Hubbard went to New York to work at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business, where he rose to be dean in 2004. After joining the Columbia faculty in 1994, Hubbard gained a reputation for his leading academic work in financial markets, particularly in public finance and private entrepreneurship. While his work on information security, senior-executive compensation, and investment cash-flow sensitivity earned high marks, his research on Social Security and tax incentives has gained particular prominence, his colleagues...
...about a different kind of beer, one designed for women like her. "The big companies had looked at a beer for women and shied away because the product was watery," she says. She began poring over beer recipes and came up with a 200-year-old brew that used rose hips. Her Honey Amber Rose is only 110 calories per bottle and carries a logo of a Latin-looking woman in a broad-brimmed red hat and a red dress with folds resembling a rose. "If you want to taste sweet success," the bottle says, "look for the woman...