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...principal advantages of eliminating early action is that it creates the perception of fairness. Although the admissions office claims its standards are just as high for the early round, the admit rate in December has historically been twice as high as in March because of a stronger applicant pool. These statistics create the perception of a skewed playing field, hurting Harvard in the eyes of the public and potential applicants, who are turned away because Harvard has already admitted almost half of its class. Because of this, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...
Hyman estimates that during the tenure of Lawrence H. Summers, he spent ten percent of his time fundraising. He has done twice as much this year...
CHECKED LUGGAGE Bans on carrying liquids led flyers to check--and airlines to lose--more bags than ever. Nearly twice as many bags were lost in October 2006 as in October...
...Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the U.S. His timing was brilliant: worldwide demand for steel has been soaring because of massive demand from China and other fast-growing economies, and with it so has Mittal's net worth. By 2005, his personal fortune was estimated to be $25 billion - more than twice the size of Luxembourg's annual budget. Before the takeover, Mittal Steel was based in the Netherlands (as a result of the merger, the headquarters is moving to Luxembourg), and quoted on the London Stock Exchange. Mittal lives in London, in a 12-bedroom mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens...
...also, like muscle, something we can train and learn, quantifiably, to build up. In Happiness, Matthieu Ricard takes us through all the recent empirical science that shows how contentment can be both deepened and assessed (those who test high for hopefulness can endure the pain of freezing water twice as easily as those who don't). But, more valuably-in part by drawing on friends and philosophers from Europe and Asia-he shows us, in practical ways, how we can make our lives more fulfilling. Ricard started out as a French intellectual who received a doctorate in molecular biology...