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...according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. How admissions committees serve these two masters will effectively chart the course their universities take over the next decade. Harvard’s preliminary answer may be found in the envelope, thick or thin, that many of the Crimson students in Westerfield’s database receive this December...
...that the U.S. invading force should be as small as possible, had a further consequence. When the war was over, there were not enough U.S. troops to detain and disarm Iraqi fighters or maintain security in the cities. Governmental authority in Iraq collapsed, leaving the U.S. forces, already stretched thin, to do everything from guarding banks to hunting down guerrillas. "The Americans thought they would come and just slot in at the top," says Entifadh Qanbar, a spokesman in Baghdad for Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.). "But the whole government basically melted away, and they weren't ready...
...think it’s really critical that Brian played well today, because we don’t have Rodney Byrnes,” said Harvard coach Tim Murphy. “All of a sudden we’re very thin in the receiving core. We went from being in great shape about a month ago to losing [senior wide receiver] Kyle Cremarosa and then Rodney this week...
...devotes page after page to reports of "lascivious" looks between the actor and some young stagehand, or diary entries of tantalizing ambiguity. But the author's defense of his quest - that understanding Guinness is essential to understanding his art - is shaky, especially since this weighty volume is desperately thin on the actor's actual approach to his roles. It seems almost mandatory now for celebrity biographers to "out" their subjects in some way. Here it serves no illuminating purpose. Was Guinness tormented by his darker side, as the author suggests? Possibly, but Read's exhaustive speculation soon becomes exhausting. Worse...
...watching the crowds thin until only leftovers linger: the babies, the wheelchairs, the dogs, the desperate. There are five of us trying to get on this sold-out flight, and the rest of them, strangers, keep telling me not to cry, that...