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...year in the foreseeable future—will be early decision’s swan song. Many admissions officials at influential colleges are still devoted to early decision, and even if a consensus to abolish early decision did exist, a single collective action would potentially be treated as an antitrust violation. “It’s been too helpful to too many schools,” says Jacques Steinberg, author of The Gatekeepers, a new book on Wesleyan’s admissions process...
...college side, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill unilaterally terminated its early decision program last April. Earlier, Yale University President Richard Levin said Yale would eliminate its program if other Ivies did as well. The U.S. Department of Justice warned that such an action would invite antitrust scrutiny, and now Yale officials are considering going it alone anyway. If enough influential schools made independent decisions to go to nonbinding early action programs (such as Harvard’s) or get rid of early admissions altogether, it could have a domino effect on less selective schools...
...attack the Commission has come under in Germany in recent months. Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der and challenger Edmond Stoiber, locked in a close election campaign, have both found the Commission an easy target. Schr?der has accused it of trying to undermine Germany's industrial competitiveness through various legislative initiatives and antitrust rulings. Stoiber has been no more forgiving, claiming the Commission continues to encroach on the competence of the German regions, the L?nder, to run their own affairs...
Besides the advantage of enabling the College to enroll any student it wanted, the proposed new policy also would have shielded Harvard from the potential claim that it was violating antitrust law in enforcing the contracts of other colleges by preventing students who had made other commitments from attending the College...
...practices to drive customers to those five airlines and undercut competitors, online and in the air. Last month Congress held what is expected to be the first of several hearings looking into Orbitz's behavior, and the departments of Transportation and Justice are officially examining the site for possible antitrust violations. Orbitz executives retort that their site has energized the online travel industry and point out that the DOT examined their business model last year and found no anticompetitive actions. Late last month Orbitz announced an IPO it hopes will raise $125 million...