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...you’re a gambling man, you might be better off taking your money to Vegas than putting it on admission to any Ivy League school...

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Odds | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

Harvard was listed as the toughest school to get into—for every 14.23 students who applied, just one was accepted.  At Yale, the school with the second-lowest odds of admission in the Ivies, the chances were...

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Odds | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

Over the next three decades, the actor anchored three other sitcoms: in 1965 The John Forsythe Show (an Air Force major inherits a San Francisco girls' school), in 1969 To Rome With Love (a widower moves his three daughters from Iowa to the Eternal City for a teaching position) and, as he was nearing 75, The Powers That Be, about an inept U.S. Senator whose wife (Holland Taylor) runs the show. Imagine the James Gregory-Angela Lansbury couple from The Manchurian Candidate, remove the sedition, add broad laughs, and you have this short-lived 1992 farrago, dreamed up by Marta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...became the first Asian-American elected to the Cambridge City Council in November last year and is concurrently pursuing a double degree at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. And before that, Cheung was a “rocket scientist” (that was actually his title) at Space Adventures, a Virginia-based company that sends private citizens into space...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Politics Isn't Rocket Science—Or Is It? | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...China's latest moves, however, hint that it hopes to tamp down tensions. "Things certainly stopped getting worse," says Jin Canrong, a professor and deputy director of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing. "I would say the relationship between China and the U.S. is becoming stable, but in order to get better, both of them have to work harder." (See pictures of U.S. Presidents in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hu Heads for Washington: Will Tensions Ease? | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

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