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Last April, we found out that the acceptance rate for the class of 2013 was about 7 percent. That’s a number to make even some of us upperclassmen feel insecure. (Back in our day, we were admitted at the embarrassingly bloated rate of about 9 percent. Good thing we managed to slip in when we could.) These days, we wonder, could there be a statistically more impossible dream than getting into Harvard...
...Business Insider observed this week that it was actually harder to get a job at Manhattan’s newest Apple Store (located on the Upper West Side) than it was to secure a place in Harvard’s latest freshman class. The store’s acceptance rate: 2 percent...
Pagliuca stressed both his experience in business, starting a venture capital fund that invested in health care companies, and his middle class roots...
...Department of the Interior can fall prey to private contractors and a particular political ideology. Perhaps a more important question: Why should anyone have the authority to say what American culture is? There’s a fear that the Department of Culture could become an ethnocentric, gender- or class-biased agency. But the department need not take this route and could legitimately maintain a position of unity through diversity—just as the Smithsonian and the NEA have...
...film functions best as a set of such fragmented moments; Krasinski’s original plotline involving Sara remains the movie’s most bland and least convincing device. Scenes that show Sara in class, at professors’ cocktail parties, or in cafés with her friends, have a TV-show quality to them; they remain vignettes without developing her character and only tenuously tie the interviews together into a coherent narrative...