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Press: Recent gains restricted in scope

By Max Brooks | April 9, 2003

Yesterday U.S. forces continued thrusts into Baghdad and held on to several symbolic sites within the city in the wake of a downtown bunker-buster bombing that may have killed Saddam Hussein on Monday afternoon. Government professor and urban warfare expert Daryl Press, who has recently appeared on CBS, CNN and the Upper Valley's own WMUR to present his analysis, expressed surprise about the ineptitude of Saddam's loyalist forces fighting on Baghdad's boulevards but stressed that the American-led coalition still controls only a small portion of the Iraqi capital. After seizing and holding a presidential palace and the Information Ministry in downtown Baghdad on Monday, U.S.

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College's admit drop leads Ivies

By Zachary Goldstein | April 9, 2003

Though other schools in the Ivy League boasted lower acceptance rates and more applicants, Dartmouth's four percent acceptance rate decrease and 15 percent increase in applications constituted the largest such changes in the Ancient Eight this year. Harvard, however, again received the largest number of applications in the Ivies, with 20,986 students applying for admission.

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April weather woes form familiar refrain

By Kim McKee | April 8, 2003

Though warm temperatures over the first few days of the new term brought frisbees, sandals and idlers back onto the Green, students were soon dismayed to wake up to an all-too-familiar Hanover tradition -- the springtime snowstorm. Temperatures dropped ten degrees below the seasonal average last week, and disappointed Dartmouth students were quick to once again pile on several layers of jackets and clothing to cope with the cold conditions. Average temperatures in the Upper Valley for the first week of April are between 50 to 52 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Numbers rise for spring rush

By Valerie Silverman | April 8, 2003

The second year of spring rush wrapped up with sororities offering an increased number of bids and Gamma Delta Chi again attracting a significantly larger spring pledge class than any other fraternity. Completing an over week-long process for sororities and a shorter stint for fraternities, participants in spring rush have recently received and accepted their bids for membership. Between nine and 12 bids were given out by each of the six sororities, while the number of bids for fraternities ranged from one to 18.

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'Likely letters' bring admit. news early

By Zachary Goldstein | April 4, 2003

As the 10,636 students in the regular admissions pool wait anxiously for their decision letters this week, nearly 500 of them won't be surprised by the news. Each year the College sends out three waves of letters to exceptional students who are "absolutely clear- cut" acceptances, according to Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg.

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Speaker advocates intervention in Africa

By Robert Kimmitt | April 4, 2003

A lack of international attention to the people of sub-Saharan Africa has been responsible for the absence of effective intervention by nations during the Rwandan massacres and other human rights violations in the region, said General Romeo Dallaire, former commander of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Rwanda. In his speech, entitled "The War-Affected Children of Rwanda," Dallaire posed the question, "Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?" He said there is a "value" placed on human life that favors residents of strategically important and economically bountiful areas. He cited Yugoslavia as an example, saying that more people died in 100 days in Rwanda than in 8 or 9 years of fighting in Yugoslavia, yet Yugoslavia received far more financial, political, media, and military attention. He commented on the growing tendency of nations to violate the rules of the Geneva Convention, in particular noting the use of children as combatants. "Children have become weapons," he said.

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Acceptance rate falls to 17.5%

By Zachary Goldstein | April 4, 2003

Nearly 12,000 high-school seniors will soon know whether they have been accepted to the Class of 2007, as e-mail decision letters will be sent out today in what has been one of the College's most competitive years ever for admissions.

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Journalist recounts assignment on carrier

By Colin Barry | April 4, 2003

New York Times reporter Lynette Clemetson has been as close to U.S. Navy bombers in Iraq as you can get without signing an eight-year flight contract. Clemetson spent the past 27 days embedded on the U.S.S.

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Supreme Court hears U. Mich. case

By Zachary Goldstein | April 4, 2003

The fate of the legal use of race as a factor in college admissions is now in the hands of the United States Supreme Court after oral arguments were heard in both cases against the University of Michigan on Tuesday. By the end of the two hours of oral arguments, it appeared that the justices would preserve the use of race as a "plus factor" in admissions, but it remained unclear whether the specific system at the University of Michigan would hold up, according to a New York Times report. In the law school case the justices focused heavily on the importance of race within the military and its academies.

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Profs: Long road ahead for democracy in Iraq

By Colin Barry | April 3, 2003

Although the fighting in Iraq may soon be over, the battle for Iraq's future is just beginning, seven professors said at a Middle East forum panel yesterday. The panel -- made up of members of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies program -- discussed the challenges America will face in the coming years as it attempts to foster both democracy in Iraq and stability in the larger world. The panel universally agreed that fomenting democratic government in Iraq will be very difficult after hostilities end. "I'm not optimistic about the development of democracy in Iraq," history professor Gene Garthwaite said. Speakers further dismissed comparisons between Iraq and post-war Germany or Japan. "If you think imposed democratization is a possibility for Iraq and you think Germany is a precedent, you're living in a fantasy land," government professor Anne Sa'adah said. On a larger scale, event participants focused mainly on what they saw as the lack of global support for current American action.

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