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...five-year study was last published in 1992, when Harvard was ranked second to Stanford...
...committee visited universities includingHarvard, Yale, Duke and Stanford to observedifferent housing systems, and a house systemsimilar to Harvard's is under discussion, Kiefersaid...
Jamba Juice has been at Stanford since April1997, according to its public-relations firm...
...rankings have also become enormously controversial. Among the schools critical of the system are members of U.S. News's own top-25 club: Berkeley, Tufts, Rice, M.I.T. and Wesleyan. Critics rally around Stanford president Gerhard Casper's censure of the "specious formulas and spurious precision" of the lists. What is wrong, many say, is that the conclusions are based too much on input--the current reputation of each school and the attributes of incoming students. More helpful, they say, would be a measure of output--what consumers (that's what applicants really are) are likely to get in exchange...
...tragic consequences of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination was that he was cut down before he could write his own assessment of his life. Now, 30 years after the murder, his family is attempting to fill the gap with the assistance of Clayborne Carson Jr., a Stanford University professor who edited King's papers. Sadly, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Warner Books, 400 pages, $25) does not deliver the sort of revealing self-examination that characterizes such powerful memoirs as the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Instead...