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...seniors actually apply to Harvard? According to the admissions office, the 30,000-strong applicant pool for Harvard’s Class of 2014—give or take a few hundred—does not include transfer applicants. Repeated (second or multiple-time applicants) can be ignored because they are nearly negligible in number. From this pool, around 5,000 are international citizens. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said these 5,000 students were “foreign by citizenship but any number may have applied from the United States...
...darkness fell on Bangkok, it was not clear if the army would continue its operations throughout the night or wait until morning to resume trying to take back the city's streets. "All that happened today so far may come to nothing, depending on whether government can hold on to the slim advantage they earned today," said Tulsathit Thaptim, an editor at The Nation...
...soldiers succeeded in pushing the Red Shirts back several hundred meters, taking an intersection in front of the regional headquarters of the United Nations. But by nightfall they had failed to take the Phan Fa intersection. Gunshots were heard near the Democracy Monument by photographers for The Nation newspaper...
...October but now must be held within two months, according to the constitution. Kaczynski was widely expected to seek another five-year term as president. Opinion polls had suggested he would lose to Tusk's centrist candidate, Bronislaw Komorowski (who, as speaker of the lower house of parliament, will take over the president's duties in the interim, under the terms of Poland's constitution). But Saturday's tragedy may have changed the political picture...
...remains to be seen what shape Otunbayeva's foreign policy will take. In the past, the 53-year-old career diplomat has served as both a Soviet apparatchik in Moscow and a Kyrgyz ambassador to the U.S., Britain and Canada. While the country remains in a state of limbo, Otunbayeva and the other revolution leaders have tempered their pro-Russia rhetoric, focusing on the consolidation of power at home rather than jumping into foreign policy dilemmas. They've said the U.S. can continue operating its military base for now, and they've pledged to hold elections in six months, although...