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...Reider added that he thought the admissions status quo at larger schools like Harvard was not likely to change...
TIME's latest poll finds American voters heading into November's election dissatisfied with the Republican-dominated status quo, but not necessarily convinced that the answer lies in voting Democratic. The poll, conducted March 22-23, finds Americans unhappy with the performance of the Republican-controlled Congress - 39% approve, versus 49% who disapprove - and gives Democrats a 9-point lead when voters are asked to state which party's candidate they would choose for a House of Representatives seat (50% answered Democrat, 41% chose Republican). Voters favor Democratic control of Congress by 49% compared with 38% for Republican control...
These students with intersecting identities—whether racial, sexual, or political—are carving out niches by creating groups specific to their status as minorities within minorities...
...wake of housing randomization, blocking has occupied a major slice of the scramble of freshmen year at Harvard. Some tight cliques form blocking groups in September, while other groups are a mish-mash of frightened freshmen who come together at the last moment in order to avoid lonely floater-status...
...Perhaps, but there's hardly any certainty over that outcome - even in the new Afghanistan liberated from the rule of the Taliban, personal status issues are governed by Islamic Sharia law rather than a civil code. And it's not clear how a conflict between Sharia and the Afghan constitution's embrace of U.N. Human Rights conventions that guarantee freedom of worship would be resolved. The country's chief justice, Fazl Hadi Shinwari, has no secular legal education, and had previously been the head of a Council of Islamic Scholars. He is also a close associate of Abdul-Rabb...