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Rejection seems to be the school’s key operating precept. For my class, Harvard accepted 2,055 out of 18,160 applicants. It was the most selective yield yet, and in the last two years it’s only gotten harder to get in. At that rarefied level of acceptance, there is a huge element of chance. Nevertheless, the idea that acceptance to Harvard does represent some sort of objective standard remains ingrained among the population here...
...newly reinforced national unity is certainly helping to yield some pragmatic policy decisions. America’s missile defense program requires more funding to make significant strides, and now these monetary needs have been satisfied. President Bush’s next step should be to begin testing anti-missile systems in real-world scenarios with more complex technology...
...Bush has to get us all to put on hard hats, give up comfort and certainty and indulgence for something larger than ourselves. It's not going to be as hard to start this war as to continue one that doesn't yield victory without ground troops in a country that's a guerrilla's dream and a general's nightmare...
...Bank of New York, one of the main banks that process Treasury-bond trades, at one point delayed settlement of transactions worth at least $400 billion. By Friday, the bank insisted that "virtually all" problems had been solved, though a government official disputes that. At week's end the yield on the 10-year T-bond, which many mortgage rates are based on, stood at 4.55%, nearly a percentage point lower than it was four months...
...made frantic calls to Iranian powerbrokers. "Clarify Iran's position or risk getting bombed," one told former Speaker of Parliament Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri. "We should use this opportunity to create a common understanding," said Taha Hashemi, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. "All this bitterness can yield a blessing...