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Early decision allows students to obtain a guaranteed place at the college of their choice as early as Nov. 1. However, the application requires a binding agreement to attend if accepted, which pressures students into making permanent choices before they are ready. And the pledge to attend is almost always made before students receive financial aid offers, meaning that a student may be forced to attend the college despite a very inadequate financial aid plan...
Colleges profit from early decision because it increases their acceptance yield—100 percent of students accepted early will attend. These numbers help colleges boost their U.S. News and World Report ratings, attracting even more applicants who are then stiffed under the early decision system. Colleges designed the early decision system for their own benefit—and students have been lured into taking up their early decision offers for the security they provide...
...after the attacks say leaders from the province had asked Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, to prevail upon the U.S. to stop bombing in Paktia. A convoy of tribal leaders from the area was attacked by American warplanes on Dec. 20 as they set out for Kabul to attend Karzai's swearing-in. As many as 65 people were said to have been killed then...
...three siblings grew up there, and he never left. In the days and weeks after, when E.J. steeled herself by going to Mass, priests reversed bans on cell phones in church, just in case there was any good news. Mike's two young nephews, Christopher, 12, and Brandon, 7, attend St. Clare's School, a nearby Catholic day school connected to a church that has been burying firemen for months. The boys have heard the dirges of the pipe-and-drum corps from their desks; their classmates have served as altar boys. Mike's eldest brother, Robert, left Staten Island...
...just the drive he dislikes. The proceedings themselves also draw his ire. "It's boring. I don't have to be there. Why should I go?" he asks. The court insists he attend most days. A media pack mobs him inside the courthouse, swarming around him as his four-man, one-woman legal team answers questions about the day's battle plan. Then the clerk calls the court to order and the three judges take their seats. Estrada faces the bench from the front row, sagging in a monogrammed barong tagalog, his lips tugged down in a pout, his eyes...