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...lure of the American Dream doesn’t just apply to students from poorer nations. It also applies to countries that, from a cultural standpoint, arguably count as international in cartographic terms only. Namely, Canada. According to Prichard, Canadians in particular are drawn en masse to their larger, culturally dominant neighbor. “Most Canadians get pushed to stay here because of job options,” he says, citing high school classmates that came to Harvard as an example. “I think it’s really sad that a lot of international students stay...
...100F, and soldiers will be hampered by heavy suits protecting them from chemical and biological weapons. Helicopters can't fly as efficiently in hot, thin air; more water has to be shipped to the front for parched and sweaty troops. All of which suggests that from the strictly military standpoint, a war, if there is a war, is more likely to start in March than later...
...experience working at FAS allows her to understand financial issues from the individual schools’ points of view as well as from the University’s standpoint, he said...
...does nothing for the love of it. Dragnet is a venture of both business and nostalgia; Wolf reminisces about being a cop-smitten tot, getting his parents to let him stay up until 9 p.m. to watch the TV series' debut. But then he shifts gears. "From a business standpoint," he says, "it's hard to launch new names. Everybody knows what Dragnet is. It's a pre-emptive name." That's important to Wolf, who has often stumbled when he has gone off-brand, with flops like Mann and Machine (a cop partners with a cyborg), D.C. (Washington interns...
...good portion of the game, that looked like a bad decision from Harvard’s standpoint...