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Colin Riley a spokesman for Boston University, anticipates no significant decrease in either selectivity or the quality of future classes because of a decreased applicant pool. He sees the circumstances as more complex than the numbers show...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Applicant Pool May Shrink | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...yesterday he found a way to outdo his previous three-goal performance—adding two more goals for a hat trick in the first half alone. The third and final time he found the back of the net was the only score of the second quarter for either team...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Outsoars Hawks, 11-2 | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...that the slightest whiff of sexual misconduct means a devastating fall from grace. Of course, the guillotine of public shame is applied quite arbitrarily. Clinton was impeached while his sanctimonious accuser Newt Gingrich cheated on his wife in the cancer ward. Not that this is necessarily a partisan issue, either: Sen. Larry Craig was positively marooned by his Republican Party—presumably because its members find cloacal homosexual activity abominable—while his Louisiana counterpart David Vitter emerged unscathed from an encounter with the “D.C. Madam”. One suspects the Senate was less than...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Puritanical America, J’Accuse! | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

Amid the uncertainties, it seems clear Paterson's geniality represents a welcome change in Albany. "He's not a bully," says Perkins. "But he's not a pushover, either." If he is to succeed, he must be neither. Just weeks into his term, Spitzer famously dubbed himself a "steamroller" (an appellation he preceded with an expletive). The critical challenge for his successor is not to get steamrolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Face of New York | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...read it in a guarded room, on condition that they took no notes and signed a pledge saying they would keep its contents secret. Although the Parliament's vice presidents agreed on Monday to review the system of hiring office assistants, they spent two weeks insisting the report was either non-existent or confidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stink of Fraud in Brussels | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

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