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...Shea relates an anecdote about bigoted Harvard admissions policies from Berkeley Sociologist Jerome Karabel’s new book “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.” In 1925, when a Harvard alumnus expressed “utter disgust” about the amount of Jews on the Harvard campus to then-President Abbot Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, Lowell replied that he “had foreseen the peril of having too large a number of an alien race and had tried to prevent...
...latest signpost in the Bush Administration's hegira from lunatic idealism to utter desperation in Iraq, and it comes at a crucial moment. Iraq's fate--well, the U.S.'s fate in Iraq--will be decided in the next six months. There are few optimists left in the Congress, intelligence community or U.S. military. But the Bush Administration harbors a gossamer strand of hope that the Dec. 15 election will finally produce a strong Iraqi government, a real coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Administration also realizes it may take a supremely oleaginous political thug, perhaps someone...
Never mind the moon?s utter lack of atmosphere, there?s plenty of air to breathe up there-provided you know where to look. With NASA once again planning human moon exploration, that?s become an increasingly important matter. This week, the Hubble Space Telescope may have provided some critical answers...
...saddest part is, this was just the tip of the iceberg, a single moment that distills the utter douchiness of this school. Harvard is a university where the same resources are available to all of us, where we shouldn’t have to scratch and kick and claw to get what we need. Yet somehow, greed is the pervading ethos of this campus...
...DIED. JACK WHITE, 63, reporter for the Providence Journal whose 1973 story on Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes won the Pulitzer Prize and prompted Nixon, who ultimately paid more than $400,000 in back taxes, to utter the famous line, "I am not a crook"; on Cape Cod, Massachusetts...