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...with a select group of Harvard professors, including several economists, at a closed-door session in the early afternoon, discussing globalization and trade...
From Tuesday to Thursday of this week, seniors will vote a second time to select the eight marshals who will be responsible for representing their class until graduation and then beyond...
...title. In his book, Lemann argues convincingly that the academic elitism of the American meritocracy, structured by its system of higher education, never lived up to its morally defensible Jeffersonian ideal of educating an intellectual few who would serve and advance the national community. Rather, the current system of selection for higher education based on the related criteria of academic performance, scholastic aptitude and IQ, has become a method of distributing society's pecuniary rewards to a select few without regard to future public service...
...stricter admissions policies is the trend away from flexible early action admissions to binding early decision admissions. One by one, almost all members of the Ivy League have changed their admissions policies, making an already rigorous and stressful process confining and restrictive as well. By requiring students to select and literally bind themselves to a particular institution as early as October of their senior year in high school, early decision curtails students' response to personal growth during those last months at home with regard to college decisions...
Hawking communicates with the aid of a computer and speech synthesizer attached to his wheelchair, which requires that he select words one by one from a list on the computer. According to Hawking, this allows him to speak as fast as fifteen words a minute...