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...Business School received approximately 8,500 applications in total for all three rounds this year, according to HBS admissions director Deirdre C. Leopold—roughly a 14.5 percent increase over last year’s total of 7,424 applicants...
Harvard isn’t the only MBA program seeing a boom in applicants. On the application-editing Web site Accepted.com, Jennifer B. Barba, the assistant director of MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan, said that the school’s applications had increased by about 30 percent...
...government has deceptively deprived individuals of civil liberties and basic human rights in the name of national security. Already, with nine months remaining in his tenure in office, President George W. Bush cannot flee from the scene quickly enough: The latest ABC News/Washington Post national poll showed 64 percent of Americans expressing disapproval of Bush’s performance as president...
...once a Crimson editorial editor, noted that the report’s data was not adjusted for differences in medical costs by state. The wages of medical professionals in Massachusetts are about 20 percent higher than those in Minnesota, Lee said...
According to the report, over 70 percent of Americans say that they would prefer to die at home, but just one fifth of deaths in Massachusetts occurred in homes in 1997. While there has been some legislative action to increase end-of-life options, the effect has been minimal. By 2005, the number had only risen to 22 percent...