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...three-quarters of them have flunked out,” Bok says. “We know more about what it takes [to do well at Harvard] than they do, so we have some responsibility to take people who can reasonably succeed. Once you’re over that threshold, certainly income diversity is an important form of diversity and ought to be given significant weight...
...becoming harder to function effectively. Geoffrey Keele, spokesman for UNICEF's mission to Iraq, says, "We're still implementing emergency programs, but we've lost our ability to expand them." In Afghanistan, says a senior U.N. staff member, "We are asking ourselves if we are approaching a threshold beyond which it may be impossible to operate...
When a candidate gets enough votes to reach “quota,” the threshold for election, the rest of his or her votes are transferred to the next candidate on the ballot...
...Airways in 2005. Staying power is not all that the new aircraft have to recommend them. An array of design and service innovations accompany their unveiling, including fully enclosed, flat-bed, first-class suites and "room service" (passengers phone orders through to the galley). Those with a low boredom threshold or restless children can find diversion in 500-plus entertainment channels, while a novel lighting system will coax your body clock into a rhythm that minimizes jet lag. And on trips this long, there will be plenty of that to contend with...
...society remains in the face of discrimination against those whose wedding dreams include two soul-mates of the same gender. And now this persistent and pervasive intolerance is not reserved for those small pockets of reactionaries in remote portions of our country, but rather has extended over the threshold of the White House...