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...selective colleges say that 80 percent of their applicants are capable of doing the work,” she said, and tend to select their class based on other factors, with an eye to a diverse class...
...King to convene a grand assembly, traditionally known as a loya jirga. Three weeks ago, Zahir, who has broad support among his fellow Pashtun, met with representatives of the Northern Alliance in Rome and made a deal under which together they would appoint a council of 120 representatives to select as many as 1,000 tribal elders and respected Afghans for the loya jirga. That group would elect a transitional head of state to form a temporary government. After the drafting of a constitution, the return of refugees and the rebuilding of the country, another loya jirga would be called...
This purpose is a sound one, and the Core’s greatest failing is an inability to achieve it. Because of the structure of the current Core, students must select from an often arbitrary list of acceptable courses in order to graduate. Core courses are frequently far larger than their departmental counterparts, with all the impersonal bureaucracy that large classes bring. Smaller, more intensive or higher-level departmental courses would be equally effective (if not more so) at communicating “approaches to knowledge”—yet they are often marked off-limits to undergraduates...
After directing the admissions committee to require photographs of applicants and select candidates based on “an estimate of personal character,” A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, succeeded in cutting the number of Jews at Harvard from 21 to 10 percent...
...other men who do bin Laden's bidding are similarly discreet and chillingly effective, rarely letting the rank-and-file guerrillas know the most sensitive details of operations. Abu Zubaydah, a young Saudi-born Palestinian who helped select recruits in Pakistan and organized the training camps in Afghanistan, now runs all bin Laden's international operations. He has been linked by investigators to the failed millennium bombing plots in both the U.S. and Jordan. Shaykh Said, the suspected paymaster in the Sept. 11 attacks, is bin Laden's elusive financial adviser...