Is Kindness Underrated in the College Admissions Process?
A Harvard report recommends college admissions officers de-emphasize standardized tests, and instead encourage applicants to volunteer.
A Harvard report recommends college admissions officers de-emphasize standardized tests, and instead encourage applicants to volunteer.
We already knew the struggle to pay back student debt disproportionately affects families with lower income levels more than wealthy families. But this new set of interactive maps lays out another clear implication: It's also about race.
Читать дальше...Reality show wash-up Spencer Pratt likened his MTV series getting axed to the worst terrorist attack on American soil.
Relive the beautiful relationship between Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth in chronological order, complete with all their breakups and makeups.
"I feel as good as my first year in Denver and my Islanders days."
The general board of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) held budget discussions for the third consecutive day on Friday.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department has approved the $200 million sale of military technical support and other services to Saudi Arabia.
There are lots of ways to parent gender-neutrally - and they don't have to be dramatic
The manufacturer struck a deal with China's LeEco to make an electric version of the luxury car by 2018. NBCNews reports.
A showdown over the iPhone: a court order demanding that Apple help the U.S. government unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters is becoming a crucial test case of what the government can force technology companies to do to help security and intelligence investigations.
With several members of their secondary set for free agency, the back end of the Steelers defense could look very different than it did last season. It may bear resemblance to the one they fielded in 2014, however. According to multiple reports, the Steelers have reached out to cornerback Brice McCain to express interest in…
Girls: Lena Dunham Makes The Girls Grow Up Girls was such a pop-culture phenomenon when it premiered in 2012—the subject of hundreds, thousands of think-pieces about this new, millennial-minded approach to television-making—that it was sometimes hard to experience it for what it was: a sitcom about some pals and their friends and lovers. In the fifth-season HBO premiere, we get Girls with a bracing clarity: creator Lena Dunham goes for more laughs, more tender moments, and we don’t have to always... Читать дальше...
Bolasie's absence has hit Palace hard, as the Eagles are winless in nine Premier League matches since their star winger went down injured.
Can hyperthermia be a trend? Why were Gucci mid-heel pumps everywhere? And how many ways can one wear a fur stole? Before the baton gets passed to London, let’s look back on the last 8 days (of over 170 shows and presentations!)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund said Friday it is giving managing director Christine Lagarde a second five-year term.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund said Friday it is giving managing director Christine Lagarde a second five-year term.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund said Friday it is giving managing director Christine Lagarde a second five-year term. In a statement, Aleksei Mozhin, dean of the IMF's executive board, said board members were impressed with Lagarde's strong and wise leadership... During the financial crisis of 2008, she led a council of European Union finance and economic ministers.
Voter support for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in the US state of South Carolina has declined by 8 percent compared to January, but he is still ahead of the closest rival and US Senator Ted Cruz, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll revealed on Friday.
It was a first for the Clippers in the first game after the All-Star break. They beat one of the Western Conference’s top teams for the first time this season on Thursday, a 105-86 victory over the San Antonio Spurs at Staples Center, making the elite teams ahead of them in the standings seem a...
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One of America's most iconic writers, Harper Lee, has died at the age of 89, after leading a famously reclusive life following the 1960 publication of the literary classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird."
While Lee rarely entered the public eye, she did wage a public court battle in recent years claiming her agent essentially stole the copyright for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racial injustice in the South.
Her 2013 lawsuit against her former agent, Samuel Pinkus, has since been settled... Читать дальше...
The 23rd overall pick in 2012 could make his NHL debut soon.
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Mike on being bigger than God:
"It was weird not being the heavyweight champion of the world any longer, but in my mind it was a fluke. I knew that God didn't pick on any small animals, that lightning only struck the biggest animals, that those are the only ones that vex God. Minor animals don't get God upset. God has to keep the big animals in check so they won't get lofty on their thrones. I just lay in bed and thought that I had become... Читать дальше...
They're forging new ground in religion and LGBT activism.
Serbia closed its borders to refugees trying to enter to the country from Macedonia, local media reported Friday.