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More than 27,000 student hopefuls applied to join the Class of 2012, the University announced on Wednesday, making next year's freshman class the most selective in Harvard's history...
...number represents a more than 35 percent increase over the 19,750 students who applied four years ago to join the Class...
...Reform, one of the most powerful investigative bodies in Congress, is to hear testimony from former Senator George Mitchell, the author of the report that linked some 90 players to the possible possession or use of performance-enhancing drugs. Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union chief Donald Fehr will join Mitchell at the hearing, in which Congress will pressure the executives to implement the report's recommendations, which include a truly independent drug testing program and more frequent year-round, unannounced tests (Selig has already acted on a few of them; for example, last week he set up a department...
During this election cycle in Taiwan, Beijing has taken a subtle approach. Last year Taiwan's President Chen announced plans for a referendum that would ask voters whether the island should seek to join the United Nations under the name "Taiwan." The island, which lost its U.N. representation in 1971 when its seat was switched to Beijing, has been blocked in several attempts to re-join the body under its formal name of "Republic of China." While the referendum will have little practical effect - the island doesn't have the support to enter the U.N. under any name...
...five severed heads left on a road leading to Baquba each bore a message written in blood, a warning in Arabic to would-be volunteers for the new grassroots security forces supported by the Americans: "Join the concerned citizens and you will end up like this...