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Presidents of both Yale and Stanford emphasized student flexibility as a motivating factor behind their institutions’ policy changes. Their decisions demonstrate a thoughtful commitment to applicants, especially considering that the new policy may, in the short-term, hurt Yale and Stanford by causing them to lose students whom they accepted early, either to Harvard or other colleges which offer better financial aid packages. As an indirect result, ending Early Decision could lower both colleges’ rankings in comparisons that use yield—the percentage of accepted students who actually matriculate—as a criterion...
...failing to take a more active stance against terrorism Canada is making a “short-term deal with the devil,” according to Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor...
...users, who tend to smoke less. A study published earlier this year found that tobacco smokers but not marijuana smokers had high levels of a type of enzyme believed to inflame the lungs. Dr. Donald Abrams, professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, found that short-term cannabis use doesn't substantially raise viral loads of HIV patients. (People with HIV sometimes smoke marijuana to stimulate appetite.) In fact, his study participants who smoked pot enjoyed significantly higher increases in their lymphocytes (cells that help fight disease) than those who took a placebo...
Casey says the new restrictions have both short-term and long-term effects on the University...
Galluccio also expressed doubts about the possibility of effective short-term action. Careful to say he was directing his comments at police leadership and not rank-and-file officers, Galluccio said the department needs to adopt a fundamental change in policy...