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...program is money that could go into financial aid,” he said.Though lacking concrete figures, he said he knew of a “reasonably large” number of QuestBridge participants who ended up attending Harvard anyway through the regular application process.QuestBridge Scholars constitute a small portion of each entering class at partner schools. Yale, for example, last year admitted 19 QuestBridge Scholars on full scholarship.Finally, Fitzsimmons noted that the early program deadline went against Harvard’s decision in 2006 to end its nonbinding early admission program.A representative from QuestBridge declined to be interviewed...
...first we get hints that Stone is up to his nifty old tricks. It's a hazing session of Yale's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where the forced guzzling of whiskey is the gentleman scholar's equivalent of waterboarding. The other pledges are frightened, but Dubya (Josh Brolin, who's game but not great) impresses his brothers by not only rattling off their names but also appending a goofy nickname to each. In two lightning strokes, W. provides a reference point for the Bush Administration's interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects and imagines an early example of Bush's frat...
Shteremberg, who graduated summa cum laude in computer science from Tufts this past spring, said that his undergraduate activities were probably the reason for his nomination as a Siebel Scholar. At Tufts, he organized a research symposium as the president of Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical and computer engineering honor society, and also helped to found the Tufts Wireless Laboratory, where he developed the Body Sensor Network, which can detect human activity...
John Lennon: The Life By Philip Norman; out now More moving and less plausible than most fiction, Lennon's life is one of the great 20th century fables, and it's told here definitively by a major Beatles scholar. Even as Lennon went from young tough to global pop star to hippie prophet, he never ceased to be a shattered, motherless little boy. When have so many ever followed anyone so lost...
According to Esquire, he was chosen “because as a constitutional-law scholar who is fluent in Arabic and specializes in issues of church and state, he could become the public intellectual of our time...