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...admissions policy assures low-income candidates that financial need will not jeopardize their chances of acceptance, it is not necessarily enough to overcome their reservations about applying. High school guidance counselors and Harvard’s elitist reputation often discourage low-income students from applying because they may have weaker high school preparation or lower standardized test scores such as those on AP exams or the SATs, which are often correlated with family income. Students may well be standouts at Harvard despite those scores, and to its credit, the admissions office insists that it is sensitive to this fact. Instead...
...That result would be helpful to Harvard since record against teams already in the tournament is an NCAA selection criterion. On the other hand, a California win would put Lafayette (19-2) on the bubble too. The Leopards would have a worse record against common opponents and a much weaker schedule than Harvard, but they could get in based solely on their good record...
Harvard lost out to New England schools Yale and Rhode Island for NCAA at-large berths. Rhode Island was selected over Harvard despite having a far weaker schedule and a worse record against common opponents. But URI (15-5-1) had a far better overall record than Harvard (8-7-1), a better record against teams under NCAA consideration and just as many wins as Harvard against NCAA-bound teams. That was enough for the Rams to earn the at-large berth under the NCAA’s selection criteria...
...about the same time, senior al-Qaeda operatives in custody told their CIA and FBI interrogators that the organization had plans for targeting railroads. Counterterrorism officials are worried that security for the nation's vast rail system, which has not previously been a target of terrorists, is far weaker than it is for the airlines. --By Douglas Waller
...more fruitful place to start our search. For all his paranoia, Saddam cannot avoid cultivating military leaders. Furthermore, he can only keep his army in line by resorting to brutal purges. The senior officers now in command experienced the Gulf War and they know they are even weaker now. We can be confident that they are not terribly excited about getting themselves and their men slaughtered. A decade’s worth of testimony from Iraqi military defectors, including the army chief of staff at the time of the invasion of Kuwait, shows that officers more often are motivated...