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...politicians are running on—like improving undergraduate education, or the construction of a student center, or adequate student group office space—are things that the administration ought to be doing anyway, but doesn’t really need to do, because this is Harvard. The yield will always be high and the admissions rate will always be low, regardless of lousy sections, lousy social life, and a perceived lack of amenities. Why? Because of the iconic crimson H, enough U.S. presidents to field a baseball team, and a small swimming pool filled with Nobel prizes...
...past year, Hwang also refined his human-cell-cloning process to yield the first stem cells from patients with diseases, bringing medicine a step closer to the possibility of curing illnesses from Alzheimer's to diabetes with a patient's own rejection-proof tissues. Now his new lab will try to duplicate that scientific winning streak without...
Realistically, torture consistently fails to yield reliable information from subjects. In a Washington Post article military intelligence expert and interrogator Army Col. Stuart Herrington stated that torture is “not a good way to get information” and when inflicting pain on prisoners, “they’ll just tell you anything to get you to stop.” Captives frequently offer any information to avoid subjection to further inhumane processes; the dangers of working from such unreliable intelligence need not be explained. In the face of inefficiency, inaccuracy, and the danger of torturing...
Before he arrived in China, the President took some swipes at Beijing. Giving a speech in Japan on what aides call his "freedom agenda" for Asia, he lauded Taiwan for democratic advances and urged mainland China to yield to citizens who want to "worship without state control." The salvo might have been less brazen than when Bill Clinton in 1998 reprimanded then President Jiang Zemin on live TV in Beijing for "the use of force" at Tiananmen Square. But Bush's gesture no doubt delighted his conservative base. After the service, he stood outside the church with his arm around...
...second year in a row, Harvard has the highest yield of black students of any of the 22 universities that disclosed statistics to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. At Harvard, 69.2 percent of black students admitted to the class of 2009 decided to enroll, accounting for 9.3 percent of the freshman class, the highest percentage since the journal started recording statistics in 1992. “In summarizing, Harvard had a very good year, and I think whatever problems that did exist as a result of the controversy are a thing of the past,” said...