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...person cap on the number of students who would be allowed to spend January in Harvard housing. We appreciate the flexibility of the College’s ultimate decision to admit more students who demonstrated legitimate needs (though the actual number on campus will never dramatically exceed 1,000 due to students’ different schedules). And, by any standard, the 93 percent of applicants accepted—which included students ranging from thesis writers to athletes to members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals—is an impressive number to accommodate...
...provides coverage for some 160 million Americans, or about 60% of all insured Americans. Yet the numbers behind that system show that it may be just as unsustainable as - if not more than - the U.S. health-care system as a whole, in which costs nationwide are on pace to exceed 20% of our gross domestic product by 2018. Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance increased 131% from 1999 to 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation; over the same period, employee contributions to those premiums went up 128%. From 2006 to 2009, the percentage of insured individual workers with annual deductibles...
...Here, we have kids from some of the most impoverished backgrounds and mostly with single parents, whose scores on standardized tests far exceed the overall scores in New York City,” Wilson said. “Canada is a visionary, and he is quite aware of the factors that contribute to positive outcomes for young kids...
...says analyst Champion. "Convincing the last person is much harder." IHG is going to have to do a good job of showing cash-constrained owners what returns they can get - and proving to road warriors that the changes have created a better hotel. "We've got to meet or exceed guest expectations consistently across the brand," says Bill DeForest, who counts one Holiday Inn among his 10 hotels and manages another, "or we're toast...
Ameer said that the College has currently received about 800 applications from students hoping to stay on campus in January. While the College originally said the number of students allowed to stay on campus will not exceed 1,000, Ameer said 1,000 is actually more of a “guiding number...