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...result, Harvard accepted fewer students to avoid over-enrolling its freshman class, Fitzsimmons said...
...very high.” The administrators had divergent views on the issue of applicant angst: Fitzsimmons emphasized the Admissions Office’s accessibility as a bulwark against stress, while Pilbeam said that the strains of the admissions process are impossible to avoid. “How could it be made less stressful? We’ll still have approximately the same number of new places, and...my guess is that the number of qualified applicants will stay the same, if not increase,” Pilbeam said in an e-mail. “So there?...
...Crimson was unlikely to receive an at-large bid and needed to win to get into the Tournament. Ironically, the absence of Clarkson from the ECAC Final Four may have hurt Harvard more than it helped. Though the Crimson must have been happy to avoid facing a team that ended its season last year and swept the season series 2-0 this year, the Golden Knights squeezed the NCAA bubble by claiming an at-large berth after tumbling from the ECAC playoffs. On March 22, however, there was one man responsible for Harvard’s fate: Princeton goaltender Zane...
...that fighters should not surrender their weapons except to a government committed to ejecting U.S. troops from Iraq. But on Sunday, Sadr, in a statement released through his office in the holy city of Najaf, called on his followers to stop making "armed appearances." He said he hoped to avoid more bloodshed. This week's violence has claimed hundreds of lives in Basra, Baghdad and elsewhere...
...soap operas. But he's right. Deforestation can be a complex process; for example, land reforms enacted by Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva have attracted slash-and-burn squatters to the forest, and "use it or lose it" incentives have spurred some landowners to deforest to avoid redistribution...