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...changes at HLS certainly weren’t made in a vacuum. Other law schools began to change in the past few years, and competition became stiffer as the number of applicants to law schools nationwide dropped. “There’s no question that it’s much more competitive for law schools now than it used to be,” says David W. Leebron ’77, Dean of Columbia University Law School and 1979 HLS graduate. “Harvard is in some sense responding to the competition, and that?...
BREAST-FEEDING ALERT This month's British Medical Journal warns that long-term breast-feeding of children may increase their chances of developing cardiovascular disease later in life. The Journal said that after studying 331 young adults, researchers found those who had nursed longer than four months had stiffer arteries than those bottle-fed or breast-fed only as newborns...
Tomorrow, however, she will face stiffer competition...
...injuries did provide a silver lining, though, as several Harvard players experienced playing stiffer competition...
...president, your administration is going to face a stiffer breeze from across the Atlantic--happily not right away, but sometime in the spring. By then, you will have filled all staff slots, position papers will have been leaked to the press and your European counterparts, eager to break bread with you in the White House, will have come and gone. So what are the problems...