Word: foundered
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...admissions processes are less rigorous than those at the College—SSP applicants need only demonstrate that they can handle college-level work. But attending SSP can offer real admissions benefits—just not for everyone, according to Katherine Cohen, the founder and CEO of IvyWise, a private admissions counseling company, and the author of several books on college admissions...
...Crimson talked to Plotz about whether any of these kids were geniuses and why; whether or not Harvard students should donate sperm; his conclusions about Graham, the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank founder; and whether his subjects liked his book...
...Nelson Mandela. I suspect he's the greatest living person of the last 100 years. As far as business, Herb Kelleher, [founder of] Southwest [Airlines], is incredible. The only problem is, when I have lunch with him, I end up starting to smoke again, so I'm trying not to see him for a while...
...bidder wins the job. Not surprisingly, local politicians and trade unionists have condemned the venture, which has chalked up 1,800 brokered deals, 10,000 registered users and thousands of hits a day, as "a slave market" and "grave threat" to the country's long-cherished social model. Its founder, Münster student Fabian Löw, 32, however, believes his website is long-overdue applied realism. "We start where the politicians stop telling people the truth," says Löw, who plans to go global in September. Wages in Germany are so high, he argues, that "it has been too expensive...
...political strategy has had its day. Last week a high court ordered Advani to stand trial for inciting violence in a speech before the Ayodhya mosque's destruction. Nowadays, however, he is more likely to exasperate his own party: on a visit to Pakistan last month, he praised its founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Brahma Chellaney, strategic studies professor at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, says this broad change in the Hindu right has helped "mellow" relations between India and Pakistan. "Even if there is another major attack, there will be no major reaction in India," he says...