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...Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub has solved an age-old problem: where’s a senior to get a drink in this place? Last Friday, hundreds of students flooded the Queen’s Head Pub to partake in the first ever “Upper Hall.” According to Loker Commons Project Manager, Zachary A Corker ’04, the term “Hall” alludes to social gatherings at the Oxbridge Universities that we Harvard students unceremoniously call a dinner or drink. Now, Harvard has its own distinct Hall, which...
...other programs devote more and more resources to the increasingly frenzied recruiting circuit, the two stalwarts no longer have a monopoly on the upper echelon of the Ivy-bound crop. Rosters are growing in depth, and young talent has diffused throughout the league...
...individuals. From them, forensic anthropologists at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington determined that the average male inhabitant died at age 25, with women living slightly longer. (At the time, Kelso notes, life expectancy for lower-class residents of London was about 20 years; for the upper class, it was about 40.) To the scientists' surprise, hardly any of the graves contained infants...
...society with wide wealth inequalities, a truly meritocratic admissions process wouldn’t be “need blind”—it would be “class conscious.” High-price SAT tutors and admissions consultants already tilt the balance toward upper-middle-class applicants. A meritocratic system would restore that balance by giving a tip to applicants who can’t afford these advantages...
...what's bad for the Sunnis isn't necessarily good for the Shi'ites, who have no interest in being constrained by arbitrary barriers erected by the Americans. They have the upper hand in Baghdad. They outnumber Sunnis and control the national government. They have a de facto ally in the United States, which has little choice but to support the "Iraqi Security Forces" even though those forces are often little more than Shi'ite militiamen in government uniforms...