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...applications is exacerbated when some applicants confuse other schools’ binding “early decision” process with Harvard’s non-binding “early action.” It is Harvard’s hope, and ours too, that moving to single-stage admissions will increase the diversity of the student body. As interim University President Derek C. Bok said yesterday, early admissions “advantage[s] the advantaged” because the pool of early applicants is disproportionately affluent and white. Most strong minority and low-income applicants apply in January...
...risks not connecting with the masses-or worse, being misinterpreted and manipulated by both his own followers, and those of other faiths. As a worldwide preacher-and no longer just an ivory-tower intellectual or Vatican bureaucrat-Benedict must still further synthesize his message. He may get no better stage than on his next scheduled foreign voyage. In late November, the leader of the world's one billion Catholics is scheduled to land in Turkey, home to 70 million Muslims...
Coming a day after the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and following another videotaped al-Qaeda vow to stage new attacks, Tuesday morning's foiled terrorist raid on the American embassy in Damascus is certainly cause for U.S. concern. A Syrian interrogation of one surviving attacker will seek to determine whether the incident was in fact the work of al-Qaeda or that of other individuals seeking to add to the carnage. Anti-American feelings are high throughout the Middle East, which in recent months has been gripped not only by the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...moment when trendsetters complain that ultraformatted luxury brands like Dior, Chanel and Gucci are becoming too predictable, Diesel, with its quirky stores and advertising and its outsider chief, is suddenly at center stage, a success story few would have predicted...
Says Beattie: "Her classic glamour and formal elegance really fit with what we do. She's Welsh, but many people think she's Latin American or southern European, so she has an extremely wide appeal. Because she started on the stage, singing and dancing, she's engaging in front of crowds, and she has a genuine affinity for our products. It doesn't hurt or help us that she's in the T-Mobile...