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...That was the day he was found by U.S. forces, hiding in a hole on a relative's farm outside his hometown of Tikrit. No one in Iraq had ever seen him more vulnerable. There he was, shown on television, dirt smeared on his face, his beard unkempt, his thick head of hair matted and graying. I watched these scenes unfold in Baghdad with my friend Omar, who chuckled when he saw a doctor shining a flashlight in Saddam's open mouth. It reminded him of a trader checking the teeth of a new donkey, he said. Was this...
...University of Chicago race due in part to family considerations, the source says. Now, with the disclosure that his name is on the list of candidates for Harvard’s own presidency released to the Board of Overseers earlier this month, Hyman has found himself in the thick of yet another presidential search...
...Friday, the first members of the Class of 2011 will receive virtual thick envelopes in their inboxes; a few of these applicants—“legacies”—know today that their chances are a bit higher than their peers’. The application to Harvard College is not a short one, and that is for a good reason: There is no shortage of factors that the admissions committee examines in determining who gets in. Most important are indicators of a student’s academic success and potential. In addition, the admissions committee considers...
...happy.” DormAid’s upcoming work in student finance is an example of its commitment to increasing all students’ productivity, he says. Kopko’s “judgment day” is Jan. 17, the day he hopes to receive a thick envelope from Harvard Business School. If it comes his way, Kopko plans to attend HBS next year and to continue to run DormAid. But no matter what, Kopko says his long-term goal is to keep doing what he enjoys most: building “wonderful businesses with people...
...back around 1:10.” David P. Clemens, a software developer at Ascent Technology, said he was on the fifth floor when the fire alarms went off. When he and about 100 other workers tried to escape through the stairwells, they found them crowded with thick smoke, he said. “As we went down, it got thicker and thicker,” Clemens said a day after the accident. “We got to the third floor [and] couldn’t go down. It was too thick. People were breathing through things, like through...