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...applicant who did not receive endorsement and asked to remain anonymous said, "I think I'll apply anyway. From what I understand, the endorsement committee here have a cutoff for GPA, but the Rhodes committee tends to see grades as one facet of the application...
...most provocative: an oil embargo. North Korea imports almost 75% of its petroleum products from China. If oil were cut off, the army would stop running. But China frowns on sanctions of any sort, and would hardly agree to halt the petroleum flow. Even if Beijing ordered a cutoff, Chinese businessmen along the long border are doing such a profitable business with North Korea that they might be inclined to ignore the embargo order...
...year cutoff is necessary to streamline Ph.D. programs and ensure that the school's limited academic and financial resources are available to newer students who really need them, said Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Christoph J. Wolff...
...popular target is aid to legal immigrants, with provisions for the deepest cuts in the House Republican bill and the Mainstream Forum bill (backed by moderate and conservative Democrats). Talent-Faircloth also puts a ceiling on all welfare spending except Medicaid, while the House G.O.P. bill imposes a cutoff on earned income tax credits. Clinton's plan now lets the states decide whether to cap benefits to welfare mothers who bear additional children. Though some of his top advisers still favor it, the President has rejected a plan to raise new revenues by taxing benefits paid to farmers who earn...
...between ideals and interests has produced a mush of mixed signals since Clinton took office. After saying before he was elected that he would deny MFN to China, Clinton continued the policy last May, but only conditionally. He threatened a cutoff this spring if Beijing's human-rights record failed to demonstrate "overall significant progress." It hasn't. Now, says House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Lee Hamilton, Clinton "can't renew MFN unless he lies...