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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Though each department is selective, the smaller departments tend to have a more individualized process. Students who apply to work in East Asian studies, for instance, might request to work with a specific professor instead of with the entire department...

Author: By Keramet A. Reiter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: And You Thought It Was Hard to Get into Harvard College! | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...turn around behind me and tap another girl on the shoulder. She is busy watching a Chem 7 review. "Why don't you come watch Bloodsport instead?" I coax...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Video Killed the Radial Star | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

Residential "blocking" strikes me as a lousy system for arranging students--whether in groups of eight, 16, or any other (Editorial, March 12). Instead, I suggest that the College consider an approach that has worked well for my alma mater, Yale: Assign first-years to Houses before they arrive in September and group them in the Yard so that, for instance, Eliot first-years are assigned to Matthews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters To The Editor | 3/14/2000 | See Source »

Since its founding in 1974, HIID has always maintained a healthy independence from the individual schools--reporting instead to the provost's office--and acted as a means to centralize the University's programs in foreign policy consulting, focusing on four areas: environment, macroeconomics, public finance, and health, education, and welfare...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Splits HIID Between Graduate Schools | 3/14/2000 | See Source »

Users of the popular auction site will have another way to make transactions. eBay and Wells Fargo are rolling out Billpoint, a service that allows sellers to accept credit cards without establishing merchant accounts. Instead of waiting to receive a check or money order, sellers will get immediate payment to their checking account once the buyer inputs his or her credit-card data. After the first three months, sellers using Billpoint will pay 3.5% of the purchase amount plus 35[cents]. Sales under $10 will get off a little easier and cost only 35[cents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Mar. 13, 2000 | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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