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...from students, medical schools will send out a supplementary form that requires an additional processing fee of $50 to $100, according to Michelson.Some medical schools screen students before sending out secondary applications, but “more and more schools now are sending secondaries,” she says.For Benigno R. Varela ’06, the application fees comprised the bulk of his costs. He says he decided to go to medical school early on, and sent out the AMCAS application to as many universities as he could to increase his chances of an acceptance...
...Benigno Fitial, Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands and a former Abramoff client who also attended the 2001 meeting, told TIME that he recalled the President as being "very gracious" at the session, during which Bush gave a short speech on tax policy. "He knew quite a few of the people in the room," Fitial said of the President. "He called them by their first name...
...Benigno Fitial, the governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, told TIME he attended the 2001 meeting as well. Then an Abramoff client, the governor recalled asking the President a question about tax policy as part of a discussion among the small group after Bush had given a short speech on the subject. Fitial was seeking low-tax and relaxed labor regulations for the Northern Marianas at the time. Fitial said he used a photograph of himself with President Bush taken at the meeting in his campaign for governor...
...diplomatic gifts that have been invaluable tools in guiding church policy ... When Marcos called for early presidential elections last year, the church was ready. The groundwork for selecting opposition candidates ... had been worked out by the so-called Jesuit Mafia ... [which] concluded that the strongest possible opposition candidate was Benigno Aquino's widow, Corazon. During the precampaign maneuvering, Cardinal Sin met several times with Aquino ... THE PRIMATE REASSURED AQUINO THAT SHE COULD SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGE MARCOS ... Sin tactfully refrained from endorsing the ticket in public, but there was no doubt about which candidate the church backed. Before the election, the Cardinal...
Aquino responded heatedly. Marcos, she said, was "maliciously slandering" the memory of her husband, slain Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino. She also charged the President with "political harassment," claiming that for years Marcos has tried to confiscate a sugar plantation owned by her family. Aquino revealed that on Dec. 3, the day she announced her candidacy, a regional court ordered the government to seize the property. As for the "pinko" charge, Aquino had a cool response. If elected, she said, she would allow Communists to join a coalition government if they renounced violence. NEW ZEALAND He Did It for Love...