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Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said he largely attributes the changes in Harvard’s applicant pool to the new financial aid program launched by University President Lawrence H. Summers. He also credits nationwide demographic trends, such as the growing number of high-school seniors applying to college...
...also attracting, particularly in comparison to past years, a more diverse applicant pool,” Shaw said...
...badly injured. But local director Sakiusa Raivoce says his recruits know and accept the risks. "There are a lot of people here who want to work in Iraq," says the former Fijian Army colonel, whose office is decked with mementoes of his service in Kuwait, Sinai and Lebanon. "My pool can never...
...Iraq. Fijian blue helmets in the Sinai and Lebanon - where 36 were killed during a 24-year deployment - "were well regarded," says defense analyst Jim Rolfe, of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in Hawaii. "But those commitments have wound down or ended, so you have a large pool of trained people with nothing to do." Add 3,000 reservists, most of whom don't have regular jobs, and there's an even bigger pool of men eager to turn their training into cash...
...novel, Murakami's 10th and his first big one since The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in 1997, features a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Tokyo home?shortly before his father's body is discovered in a pool of blood?and heads for distant Takamatsu. There he meets a mysterious librarian, who may or may not be his long-lost mother, and a sexy hairdresser, who may or may not be his vanished elder sister. Filling out the cast is an old man who lost his memory in an apparent UFO encounter but gained the power...