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...surface, the statistics are fairly daunting. Harvard’s general acceptance rate hovers around 8 or 9 percent—this year, a mere 7.1 percent were admitted. Yet the admissions rate was between 34 and 35 percent for legacy applicants to the class of 2011 . Given the weight its degrees carry, shouldn’t Harvard base its admissions solely on merit? Why should legacy status serve even as a “feather in the scale,” as Dean of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70 put it? Maybe no one has made...
...identified with postwar America, seems to fly in the face of the prevailing patriotic afterglow of the ?last good war.? The melodramatic main storyline - a race to gain intelligence from the Japanese that could, in some unspecified way, turn the war around - carries about as much weight as one of Hitchcock?s MacGuffins. No one talks about the war?s ideals, or its causes, or even its combatants; every character in the show is seeking a way of escaping from...
...past couple of months, as speculation has turned to the possibility of an early election, Mayawati has held a series of rallies around the country and has begun testing her political weight, perhaps to see how far she can go. On March 31, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi criticized Mayawati for not running Uttar Pradesh properly. Yet on her birthday, both Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in China at the time, had made sure to call Mayawati to wish her well. After all, they might need her support in a matter of months...
...going to write about how the Patty Kazmaier Award Selection Committee screwed over Harvard junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt, how it held against her the fact that a Harvard player had already won five of the 10 awards given out, how it gave way too much weight to Mercyhurst’s Meghan Agosta’s inflated goal totals, or how it exhibited an obvious pro-Sweden bias in voting for Minnesota-Duluth’s Kim Martin, a Stockholm native (alright, maybe not that...
...three best friends from college. It's enough to make a rock star want to become a farmer, which is exactly what drummer Bill Berry did when he retired from the band in 1997. Singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills continued, but they put more weight behind their vow to rock on into middle age than into any actual rocking, and it soon became clear that Berry's departure had done quite a number on the group's psychology...