Zuckerman made a fortune in real estate and owns the New York Daily News and US News and World Report magazine.
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But the rankings and the ratings on US News and World Report have contributed, have kind of both inspired and created almost a feverish quality to the competition among American universities to be rated higher than their competitors or their perceived competitors.
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The larger the percentage of alumni you contribute you get additional points toward your US News and World Report rating.
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It does not appear anywhere in the acclaimed US News and World Report lists of high-performing schools in Maryland, let alone nationwide - even in the subsets of STEM or charter schools.
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To take another criterion the US News and World Report uses to judge how good a college or university is, their criterion is the percentage of alumni who contribute money to the college or university.
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And this has caused a lot of them - that is colleges and universities - to engage in the kind of gaming exercise to prop up their ratings under the US News and World Report ratings system.
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Leading Duke University, for example, to actually go out beating the drums trying to get a lot of people, a lot of young people to apply who don't have any chance of getting admitted but the theory being the more applications the more rejections and the more rejections the better for the US News and World Report rating system.
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For example, back in 2008, U.S. News and World Report released data telling us that women controlled 60% of the wealth in the United States.
As a school we participated in the BBC News School Report Survey online and they came to interview us about our answers.
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He's been on the cover of U.S. News and World Report, GQ, Rolling Stone, US Weekly (twice), Time and Newsweek (a combined 12 times) and will soon be on the cover of Men's Vogue for the second time.
Bullish news for the US economy: this week the ADP employment report and the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that the economy added 200, 000 jobs in December and the US unemployment rate dropped to 8.5% (down .6% since August).
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Xinhua news agency and other party-state media have called a US Department of Defence report on China's military modernisation and alleged state-sponsored military cyber-spying "groundless speculation" that could trigger an arms race in Asia.
"We will publish a paper in September reviewing the results of the US modelling and our response to the GAO report, " a spokeswoman told BBC News Online.
Xinhua news agency says Mandiant's report "reeks of a commercial stunt", accusing US politicians and businessmen of hyping a China hacker threat for their own interests.
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