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...Business Insider observed this week that it was actually harder to get a job at Manhattan’s newest Apple Store (located on the Upper West Side) than it was to secure a place in Harvard’s latest freshman class.  The store’s acceptance rate: 2 percent...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: And You Thought Getting Into Harvard was Hard... | 11/14/2009 | See Source »

...Ronald Reagan, for all his cold-warrior confidence, projected a personal modesty that served his political agenda well. I still don't know what President Obama's core principles are, but the fact that he even pays lip service to humility as one of them could give him the upper hand in the war for the souls of independents - a group that's larger now than at any time in the past 70 years. He was aggressively modest acknowledging his inconvenient Nobel Peace Prize. He regularly makes fun of his ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Modesty, in an Age of Arrogance | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson indicated in Friday’s Around the Ivies column, Harvard football couldn’t rest on its laurels Saturday against Columbia. In the early weeks of the season, the Lions embarrassed their opponents and positioned themselves in the Ancient Eight’s upper echelon. This weekend, the Crimson answered the call...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Quick Start Sparks Crimson Victory | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Raucous applause welcomed Democratic Senate hopeful Alan A. Khazei ’83, into the Upper Common Room of Adams House yesterday afternoon. Amidst a throng of supporters, Khazei entered with a pump of his fists, and as the cheering subsided, made a barely audible comment: “This is awesome. I love this...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dem. Senate Candidate Speaks in Adams House | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...December. The other issue, says Green, is that the mayoral election in Nago, slated for January 2010, could alter the tone of the agreement if the new mayor opposes the plan. Japan political experts have speculated that such delays, including perhaps waiting until next July's upper house elections, could change the current agreement that was made under the LDP administration, but Green says radical changes under the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) administration won't be possible. "If the DPJ can repudiate an agreement made by a previous government, then so could the U.S. side, in theory," says Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan Protests U.S. Military Ahead of Obama Visit | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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