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...schools have tried to opt out of the list. When Reed College stopped complying in 1995, the magazine assigned the lowest possible value to the missing statistics; in one year, Reed fell from the second quartile to the fourth. (Since then, the iconoclastic school has suffered no shortage of qualified applicants.) U.S. News now plugs in whatever data it can find for nonparticipants. "They won't let you quit," Drew president Weisbuch says of the magazine's data collectors. "I would spell...
...Cambridge was home to more than three times the number of robberies and aggravated assaults per capita than was Princeton. What’s more, this city’s crime rates that year were the lowest in four decades, according to the Cambridge Police Department’s 2005 Annual Crime Report. But the perception of almost tedious tranquillity that gives Princeton choirboys such glee is endemic to Harvard, and without good reason...
...Crimson’s placement as a 15-seed was surprising given the team’s abysmal nonconference showing—Harvard went 2-11 before tearing through the Ivy League. Tournament experts projected the Crimson as the lowest-possible 16-seed, which would have given Harvard a matchup with one of the tournament’s four top-ranked teams: North Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, or Duke...
...Debating on behalf of the anti-final club position, Juliet S. Samuel ’09, who is also a Crimson editorial executive, outlined reasons final clubs belong in the lowest circle of the inferno. Her three major ones: final clubs institutionalize gender differences, punching is damaging to an individual, and clubs institutionalize privilege...
...Satterfield spoke to reporters in Washington and seemed to be talking primarily to Americans. He said he'd seen one glimmer of good news since the Baghdad security crackdown began: the level of sectarian execution-style killings was "to the lowest level since early spring of last year," he said. "That's a positive thing, but it needs to be sustained...