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...Over a thousand transfer applicants didn’t even have their applications considered this year. For many of these students, Harvard’s decision may be only a minor setback, but for others in less stable situations, like Max’s, the decision is potentially life altering. We don’t pretend to tell Harvard whom it can and cannot admit; ultimately, the housing crunch meant that some hard decisions would have to be made. Nonetheless, the current applicant pool deserves more than just a reimbursement. The damage has been done, but Harvard still needs...
...history. Like most great apes, they are in decline, victims of poachers who kill them for bush meat, loggers and miners who destroy their habitat and healers who prize their bones as part of a potion for pregnant women. Estimates of the surviving bonobo population range from a few thousand to the low tens of thousands. But every study indicates that the figure is falling...
...steps in the direction of protesters’ underlying goals. As the opening ceremonies draw ever closer, we wish athletes and activists alike the best in chasing their Beijing goals. “One world, one dream,” the official 2008 slogan reads—and a thousand spotlights, a thousand gazes, and a thousand opportunities for change...
...otherwise conservative crowd of more than a thousand supporters burst into approving applause and laughter at the mention of their storied downtown watering hole, which had dancing girls back when McCain served in the area as a young pilot. McCain's own knowing smile only added to the moment. Indeed, all week, the Republican nominee-in-waiting has been alluding to the wild days of his younger years, and crowds have been eating...
...reduced to workers and servants. Although Rhodesia had one of the continent's best-educated African populations, it denied Africans political power. In 1965, after Britain tried to force change on the white settlers, they declared it an independent, white-ruled republic. Black majority rule? "Not in a thousand years," proclaimed the white leader, Ian Smith. That led to a vicious liberation war that lasted until 1979. A British-brokered deal brought an election in 1980, which Mugabe won. For many in Africa, including its leaders, winning the war rather than the election entitled him to rule...