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...secret to getting in off the waitlist? Most colleges require students to decide where they want to go by May 1, after which they will re-evaluate the kids they've kept on hold. Given the odds, those who choose to remain on a waitlist should still accept an offer from--and, yes, probably pay a nonrefundable deposit to--another school, lest they have nowhere to attend in the fall. Some waitlisted students use the time to take action. Sam Davison, a senior at Highland Park High School in Texas, was waitlisted at his first choice, Vanderbilt University. To boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Off the College Waitlist | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...plans to debut a second ad, focusing on Democratic support for giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, which he says will also be aired in North Carolina. The second ad will be paid for by Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, the 527 group, which can accept donations of any amount. "This is a long march to November," Brown said. "Right now it's beginning a process that gives us the information to succeed in August and September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Willie Horton Hit on Obama? | 4/22/2008 | See Source »

...said. “Krister was always very wry and always reflecting humorously the argument about the need for polytheism...It was really quite understanding of him to do it that way—not to become involved in a heated debate, but to accept this guy for what he was.” This conciliatory nature carried over to his scholarship, Cox said. Stendahl eschewed displacement theology, which says that Christianity supplanted Judaism during its development, focusing instead on the continuity between the two faiths. Stendahl was also deeply concerned with interfaith matters, Cox added.Revered Peter J. Gomes...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Div School Dean Dies at Age 86 | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

...incongruity between undergraduate opinion on the consequences of the housing crunch and the decision to suspend transfer admissions is striking. Our self-interest demands that the College accept as few new upperclassmen as possible, at least until the great floods of ‘09 and ‘10 subside, so that there’s more room for us. Why, then, have some undergraduates been so quick to rush to the defense of this year’s aborted transfer applications...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Fear and Self-Loathing | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...address one of its more disturbing aspects, by sanctoning supervisors and even bishops who had "aided and abetted" the crimes? Levada responded that cases would have to be judged individually: "I would want to see the situations that we'd be talking about," he said. "I personally do not accept that there is a broad base of bishops who are guilty of 'aiding and abetting' pedophiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican Rethinks Laws on Abuse | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

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