Word: admits
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...Brennand Mueller notes many applicants find it disquieting that the criteria changes from year to year. “What we admit one year from a given school, you could do almost the same exact things and we might not taken you the next year given the strength of the pool and how that class is coming together,” she says. “It’s not an ideal answer to people. People always want absolutes...
...fight in the boy made it a task fit for a hero. No medals were awarded, and I confess I did not think of him as much of a hero that first night. But he has lived 25 years with that chase. And 25 years removed, I can admit that I might have chased...
...Peter Balkenende, it was his second coalition break-up in only four years in office. In May, "Iron Rita" Verdonk took away Hirsi Ali's passport because the Somalian-born woman had entered the country and requested asylum in 1992 under a false name, as she had openly admitted. Many considered Verdonk's handling of the dossier excessively harsh, and under pressure from her government colleagues, Verdonk ruled that Hirsi Ali was indeed entitled to carry the ancestral name she used and her passport was restored. But Verdonk, a member like Hirsi Ali of the center-right party vvd, refused...
...point that out not to be rude--although I admit it is kind of rude--but because those are the writers that people--people who think about such things, anyway--think of as the young American novelists. And even by the notoriously elastic standards of the literary world--the only place on earth where you can still be a wunderkind at the age of 30--42 is not especially youthful. Wallace, Franzen, Lethem and Chabon may be great writers, but one thing they are not is young writers...
...true interest, and not just because of those great expectations. And it seems that the notion of what one is supposed to do drives too many college students’ summer plans. Why else would so many undergraduates strive to spend their summer as investment bankers? Most would admit it is not for a love of finance. Rather, it is because being an investment banker fits the profile of what a Harvard student is expected to be: wealthy, prestigious, and hard-working. Of course, I may be guilty of embracing the psychology of PBS children’s programs...