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...Harvard. I had never thought about it before as a public question. Regardless of how surprised anyone is or was, I never had a college acceptance party, or heard of any. Most students just buy the sweatshirt of their chosen school to represent their decision. In the wake of the high-school graduation frenzy, there is little pomp and circumstance beyond the congratulations received from those who know the student (and even those who don’t). As Commencement approaches, though, the celebration of these academic accomplishments seem to have been elevated to a new level and an expensive...
...Coming in the wake of the resolution to last week's fighting in Basra, this latest move only confirms to many Sadr's breath of power and the limits of Maliki's. Three days into his poorly executed military campaign on Basra - initially commended by Washington as a decisive show of strength by the government - the Prime Minister extended by ten days a deadline for militants to lay down their arms. Now, despite what the U.S. Embassy and Coalition forces have called a successful run in Basra, Maliki appears to have eased the pressure off the Mahdi Army entirely...
...billion plan to shore up the nation's infrastructure, including a $10 billion emergency fund for high-risk bridges and other structures and a $60 billion National Infrastructure Bank that would finance large projects - all of which, she claims, would create three million jobs. Similarly, in the wake of the Minneapolis bridge collapse last summer, Obama announced a plan to spend $60 billion on fixing bridges, dams and highways, a move that he says would create two million jobs...
Nationalist Party frontman and Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate Ma Ying-jeou is set to assume Taiwan’s top executive office in the wake of his victory in the country’s recent presidential elections. Ma, a 1981 HLS alumnus and the former mayor of Taipei City, won Taiwan’s March 22 election by a 17 percent margin. His party, considered more favorable to a rapprochement with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) than the rival Democratic Progressive Party, will face challenges in reestablishing relations with the Mainland. HLS professor and Director...
...debatable contention might erode, and soon: yesterday, it was reported in this paper that Harvard’s undergraduate acceptance rate this year has sunk to nearly seven percent, a record low. This news came in the wake of the administration’s rightly unpopular decision to eliminate the transfer program for the next two years. Harvard’s gates are closing quickly, to the inevitable benefit of those few best equipped to claw their way in: those, that is, with ambitions and resumes as worrying as they are sprawling and meticulous, or aristocratic origins to which...