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That’s basically what has been happening at Harvard over the last four years. Mass. Hall measures such as the Allston “tax,” which raids school and departmental endowments to create a pool of money for building across the river, have challenged departmental autonomy. Mass. Hall’s moves to unify alumni databases and direct incoming funds to the parts of the University it sees fit will decrease fundraising independent of the central administration. And authority within the administration has also been centralized, as when Dean of the Faculty of Arts...
...Portman cried for the first nine mins. of Free Zone; that Fusako Urabe survived an emotional thrashing in Bashing; that Manderlay star Bryce Dallas Howard had to put up with Von Trier's Svengalise personality; that Taiwanese beauty Hsu Chi (aka Shu Qi) was quite decorative watching guys shoot pool in Three Times; and that Alison Lohmann carried the story, while sinking the plausibility, of Where the Truth Lies. These performances merit sympathy at best, not a commendation...
According to Giles, the 2005-2006 Fellows were selected from a pool of 111 applicants. He said that, of the group, “a good 65 to 70 percent are people who you could see being a Nieman Fellow...
...Class of 2009 was recently selected from a record applicant pool of 22,796, and it looks like close to 80 percent of those we admitted have chosen to join us in the fall,” she wrote. “Over 290 of these students will benefit from the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative...
Overall, the number of students accepting Harvard’s offer of admission rose slightly this year, inching up a percentage point to 78.5 percent. Byerly accepted an all-time low 9.1 percent from a record applicant pool of 22,796. Ethnic and geographic demographics remained consistent with previous years. The Class of 2009 will include slightly more African-American and Native American students and slightly fewer Asian-Americans and Latinos...