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...learned how to cook out of a French cookbook so thick it was more like a doorstop,” Wilson remembers...
...that the policy change would simplify the process by allowing the admissions office to “focus on those candidates who are free to accept our offer.” Presently, Harvard’s early applicants can simultaneously apply early decision elsewhere, which means the College sends thick letters to some students who are legally bound to attend another school. And yes, the time and resources spent debating applicants who, in the end, cannot legally attend Harvard—88 were accepted last year, according to McGrath-Lewis—is a burden...
...with CASAH: large portions of the student body hostile and distrustful of Harvard’s willingness to change; a University with, at best, a spotty history on the issue of sexual violence; and an understanding that there was a lot to be done. Each month a two-inch thick binder arrived in the mail, filled with articles on sexual violence to be read in preparation for the Committee’s next meeting. We met with individual students, student groups, faculty, lawyers, administrators, mental health clinicians and more. It is safe to say we both learned an immense amount...
...tense silence falls over the room. Three hundred people sit motionless, eyes down, concentrating on the cards in front of them. Their felt-tipped pens hover over the numbers, ink cobras ready to strike. The air is thick with anticipation, or at least cigarette smoke. Then the man up onstage begins his ritual call: "One and two, 12. All the sixes, 66 ?" Suddenly, the place is alive with movement - hands zipping back and forth, dabbing at the cards with sniper-like precision. Everyone racing to be the first to fill a row, two rows or a full house. Racing...
...don’t think anyone would have expected us to be at 12-15 and right in the thick of the division hunt,” Stupor said. “We’ve had injuries beyond [Burnat and Grass], but people have stepped...