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Some universities—such as Tufts, which suspended its need-blind admissions policy this year—are not in a position to pledge the same level of financial support at this time, meaning that Harvard and wealthier institutions find themselves ahead of the pack in the race to pluck the strongest students from all backgrounds...
...Developing countries like China pushed wealthier nations to accept tough short-term carbon emission targets, demanding cuts of at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. But developed nations demurred, refusing to commit to new cuts now, even though their existing commitments would lead to a reduction of only 4% to 14% below 1990 levels...
...mere seven years. Mosque numbers in France and Germany have also exploded. While Europe's churches sit empty or are converted into luxury lofts and schools, Muslims are building mosques in old nightclubs and supermarkets, in former sauerkraut and pharmaceutical factories and, yes, abandoned churches. As Muslims get wealthier, more confident and more geographically diffuse - almost a third of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live in non-Muslim-majority states - their mosques are no longer just monuments to the rulers whose names they bear. Increasingly, they symbolize the struggle to marry tradition with modernity and to set down roots...
...Crimson Editorial Board, and Spee member John F. Bowman ’11 defended the final clubs by trying to debunk common stereotypes. Both argued that final clubs are more heterogeneous than they are perceived to be, although the two acknowledged that the final club membership is wealthier than the student body at large. “It’s one of the most racially diverse organizations that I know of,” Bowman said of the Spee. At the same time, Advocate member Millicent M. Younger ’10 and Dudley Co-op president Paul Nauert...
Many evolutionary scientists believe that those thousands of years of human behavior are no artifact: modern men still strive for status partly because it is an evolutionary advantage for improving reproductive success. But other researchers have disputed that theory by citing data showing that wealthier, higher-status men do not in fact have more children than their less moneyed, lower-status peers. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...