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...We’ll be able to reach Dean Smith’s goal for the administrative budget,” Brandt said. In addition, instead of cutting back on program funding, the school plans to simply offer admission to fewer students—while keeping class size constant—in order to ensure that over-yields do not occur. “We realized that we would need to be very cautious with the size of the graduate school in the coming year,” Brandt said, adding that the admissions committee has decreased its accepted applicant...
...develop their visual-verbal imaginations. And, in the case of Japanese novels and graphic novels, students are also given an opportunity to give their visual-verbal imagination free expression.”Harvard professors who integrate comics into their coursework benefit from this enthusiasm, witnessing dramatic increases in class size. “I think that there has been something of a paradigmatic shift in recent years in which students entering Harvard over the past decade have become increasingly interested in comics and graphic novels,” says Kern, whose categorization of manga as Japanese literature has been questioned...
...days and weeks since the Baghdadia network correspondent fastballed his size 10s at Bush during Bush's joint press conference with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Dec. 14, his actions have been the talk of the town. Banners were hung in his honor in many parts of the capital. And in Saddam Hussein's former stronghold of Tikrit, a statue of a large shoe was erected - but then quickly removed, on orders from the Iraqi parliament. Support for al-Zaidi elsewhere in the Arab world was even more effusive, his seemingly spontaneous act resonating across a region...
...office has filed 11 counts against Madoff for his part in a decades-long Ponzi scheme, now estimated in court documents to amount to $64.8 billion, considered the largest in history. In fact, the new dollar amount cited in a Justice Department communication to Sorkin tallies the total size of the fraud, which dates back to the 1980s, at $170 billion, which includes money invested with Madoff, interest earned and payouts to investors as well as the value of things he bought for himself, like a yacht. "The charges reflect an extraordinary array of crimes committed by Bernard Madoff...
...While the alleged crimes are not novel, the size and scope of Mr. Madoff's fraud are unprecedented," Dassin said. "As a result, Mr. Madoff faces 150 years in prison, mandatory restitution to the victims of his crimes, forfeiture of his ill-gotten gains and criminal fines. The government has not entered into any agreement with Mr. Madoff about his plea or sentencing. The filing of these charges does not end the matter. Our investigation is continuing...