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...director of the Office of Instructional Research, to help them categorize all applicants. Admissions officials plug a student's standardized test scores and high school grades into his formula and place the results on a graph of Harvard students' grades. The position predicts what a potential acceptee's class rank will be when he or she comes to Harvard Whitla says the test is usually 80-90 percent accurate Yet Jewett emphasizes that the formula merely provides just one of many ways of classifying all the students...
...Every Monday at 5:30 p.m., the nine councillors convene and hash out matters ranging from the budget to street names. The members are elected at-large by the Hare proportional system: Cambridge is one of only a handful of American cities to use the scheme by which voters rank their preferences, and once a candidate gets a sufficient number of first place votes, his ballots spill over to the number two ranking candidate (or something like that). Currently, power is balanced, with the CCA and the Independents each holding four seats, and Vellucci, who calls himself a "small...
...defense spending. Military pensions should be scaled back, the report says, so that they no longer amount to about twice the rate found in the private sector. Generous cost of living adjustments have allowed some officers who retired ten years ago to make more than those of equal rank on active duty, and more than those who retired recently. Even issuing payroll checks results in waste. Private businesses can do it for about $1 a check, but it costs the Army $4.20. The Grace commission also cites the operation of unnecessary military bases and the domestic proliferation of subsidized commissaries...
...split within Fatah, the P.L.O. mainstream group that has always been Arafat's power base, is largely a reaction to last year's forced evacuation from Beirut. It is also the result of a wide range of complaints by some of the rank and file that the P.L.O.'s leadership has been corrupt and ineffective. But these grievances would probably not have sparked an active rebellion without the interference of Libya and, more important, Syria. The P.L.O. has always relied heavily on Syria for military and political support, although relations between Arafat and Assad have been cool...
...wife's career blossom just as his was ending. Born in London in 1915, he was sent to Mill Hill, a second-drawer boarding school, then went on to join the Royal Artillery. By the end of World War II, he had risen to the rank of major. There was also a brief marriage and a divorce. Denis' grandfather in Kent had discovered an effective sheep-dip and founded a company, Atlas Preservatives, to market it. After the war, Denis went to work for the firm, which became a successful paint manufacturer...