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...into Harvard again,” said Patrick M. Mulvaney ’10. In fact, the odds of getting into the Undergraduate Council are just 1 percent higher than the odds of getting into Harvard College itself. The electoral landscape in the Yard contrasts with the terrain facing upperclassman candidates. The four freshman districts each fielded at least 19 candidates this year, with Leverett House, the next most contested precinct, putting forth a meager six. It’s not just the freshman candidates who are getting the electoral urge. First-years are also going to the polls?...
...anywhere if we have any indication that he is there. We are trying to look for him. But we're dealing with mountainous areas. There are no roads. These are fiercely independent people--they are all armed, everyone carrying a weapon. This is the kind of terrain we're dealing with. It's not easy...
More than 100 supplement companies dot the terrain alongside I-15 snaking through Salt Lake City, Utah, generating $4 billion in annual sales--four times the revenue of the state's more famous ski trade. The herbal health business is so prevalent in this area that it has been nicknamed Cellulose Valley, after the primary component of green plants...
...current terrain is complex and unfair,” Gardner wrote. “It was gutsy for a few universities to take the lead, risk losing some good students, to try to push the overall system in positive (less complex, fairer) directions...
...Hossein, Zahra, and the like. Indeed, Arabic names, except for a handful of Sunni villains, were fine. Persian ones, despite originating from the language actually spoken in Iran, had to be checked against the official list. Along the way, other politically inconvenient realities were fought on the baby name terrain. Wishing to quell an uprising by ethnically Kurdish Iranians in the north, the government banned Kurdish names. A Kurdish couple I know managed one for their baby, but only by showing up at the registry office with a giant box of pastry and a stack of cash for the name...