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Most recently, the department garnered third-place in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of mathematics specialties as part of its “America’s Best Graduate Schools” issue, finishing behind Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley...
...last dream. Four others were there on a mission. Forty-six minutes into the flight, one of them shouted in Arabic and brandished a bandolier of explosives. Another got into the cockpit, stabbing the pilot and co-pilot. A third seized the controls. Some of the captives, getting on phone lines, learned that two other planes had torpedoed into the World Trade Center. Realizing their doom, the passengers also found a mission. They stormed the hijackers, rammed their way into the cockpit and, to keep the plane from being one more missile aimed at a U.S. landmark, tried to wrest...
...from the newspapers, he already knows that the U.S. trade deficit with China has shot up to $200 billion. Hu will arrive well briefed on the subtle strategic game the U.S. is playing against China. The U.S. has tightened its military bonds with Japan (which now has the world's third largest surface navy); it is forging an alliance with India; and it is expanding its economic presence in Vietnam, its former enemy, while strengthening its traditional ties to Australia and New Zealand...
...virus” like Knock.“We basically cast the best person for the part,” Burkle explains. “I loved the character of Dr. Knock, this mysterious doctor who comes in with evil, giant plans to take over the world. I needed someone who was captivating and who could have that power. Julia was it. She blew us away at auditions.”Chan hopes to bring “a sort of androgynous, ambiguous” aspect to the protagonist that will make her a more frightening and universal figure. Though...
After three straight years in third place, Harvard jumped to the top of Hispanic Magazine’s annual ranking of top colleges for Latinos. The Florida-based magazine’s March article balanced standard criteria from the popular college rankings by U.S. News and World Report with factors such as Hispanic enrollment rate and the number of Hispanic cultural organizations on campus, according to the article. Fellow Ivy League schools Princeton and Yale finished second and fourth respectively. Stanford, which has finished first in each of the past five years, fell to sixth on the list...