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...receives “just under 10,000” applications a year and takes roughly 1 out of 10 students, according to Dewey. While only 100-200 of those applications are submitted by students on the cusp of graduating from college, the one-tenth acceptance rate applies equally well to that group, Dewey adds...
...vote-getters achieve “quota”—one-tenth of the total votes cast—the rest of the votes in their piles are transferred to the next candidate on each ballot...
...first half of the 20th century, the term passing had an almost tragic poignancy. It meant not only secretly renouncing one's race but becoming a "real" American--enjoying the privileges of equality and anonymity, back when one-tenth of all citizens were denied true citizenship. If America was a club that admitted whites only, why shouldn't those who looked as if they belonged in the club try to join it? As America took small steps toward racial maturity, passing should have passed away. It did not; Roth's book was triggered by the news that the late...
...forced an estimated two-thirds of its work force into the underground economy. Indigenous farmers have seen their fields of coca - Bolivia's most lucrative crop, used to make cocaine and herbal medicines - eradicated as part of the U.S. drug war. Alternative crops like coffee usually earn only a tenth of coca's price in today's depressed global markets. These grievances helped catapult Evo Morales, an Andean Indian who represents coca farmers, into a runoff for the presidency last year. As Sánchez's government collapsed, Indian farmers flooded into La Paz to march. If Goni hadn...
Wylie, who was a resident of Eliot House—which organizes the annual event—hosted Evening With Champions for the tenth year...