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Does taking more students in Early Action lead to a less diverse class? No. Recent Classes have demonstrated more rather than less socia-economic diversity, with 46-48 percent of the first-year class on scholarship, the highest percentages in the history of the College. Students have come from an ever broader array of geographic areas in the U.S. and internationally, and ethnic diversity has also remained at high levels. At the same time, "early" programs of every sort (especially binding early decision programs) have traditionally attracted fewer minority students and fewer financial aid applicants. Many less affluent schools...
...work on foreign policy aimed at the general public must strike the difficult balance between academic scholarship and public accessibility. The essays in Reversing Relations may be more interesting than a foreign policy textbook, but can hardly be called riveting. Ironically, those interested in reading Reversing Relations probably already know most of the information the book presents; anyone who has been around since the 1950s and kept up with current events will have seen nearly all the events offered here unfolding as they happened...
...terms of academic scholarship, the book might be viewed as a series of summary articles on U.S. foreign relations. Yet even by this criteria it falls short of expectations. The article on the recent history of the United States' relationship with China, a topic about which countless books and papers have been written, condenses this immense subject into 20 pages. Any one of the other essays--involving the Soviet Union, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Iraq, and Cuba--are also much more complex than can be expressed in such a small space...
...Fellows and 550 Foreign Honorary Members of the Academy represent the highest, scholarship in the physical sciences, the biological sciences, the social arts and sciences and the humanities and fine arts...
...says he also selected the story as a tribute to Holton and his scholarship on Albert Einstein. "Holton is one of the leading historians on Einstein," Herschbach says. "And Stern, some call him the first pupil of Einstein...