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EXTREMELY HIGH. The pool of non-Harvard females looking for Mr. Right in the form of a handsome, intelligent Harvard boy is extremely large, especially given the number of colleges in the Boston area. Cosmopolitan BU girls are right across the river, driven Babson females are a short shuttle ride away, and then there’s always Wellesley girls…enough said...
...study's chief limitation is the nature of its data. "By virtue of Getty's motivation as a market-driven business," the authors write, "its database is an accurate measure of what one might call the 'events that matter.'" To be more precise, though, the database generally catalogs glitzy events where shutterbugs can count on preening targets with boldface names. That's great if you work for Page Six or can waltz past the velvet ropes at Les Deux. But the study seems not to hone in on places generating buzz but rather on those whose names already resonate. This...
...Douglas is hitting .363 on the season, with a .569 slugging percentage and 17 runs driven in over 26 games—quite a feat for a career .185 hitter prior to this season...
...them.” School committee member Luc D. Schuster said in an interview last week that although race is often an unavoidable factor, it would be simplistic to ignore other aspects of the candidates. “I would hope no one’s decision is driven solely by race,” he said. “I haven’t heard any members say that they’re voting because of someone’s race.” But some residents said they felt the school committee did not give sufficient weight...
...decades, the U.S. intelligence system had been structured to answer static Cold War-era questions, like how many missiles there are in Siberia. What the U.S. needed after Sept. 11, Andrus argued, was something that could handle rapidly changing, complicated threats. Intelligence organizations needed to become complex and adaptive, driven to judgments by bottom-up collaboration, like financial markets or ant colonies - or Wikipedia. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...