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...only part of the burden of handling many early applications is monetary—the early process requires a faster turn-around. If feeling rushed, however, the admissions office can simply defer truly borderline students and reconsider them in the regular process. And the less restrictive policy gives these borderline students the chance of getting in early at another school...
Ladd also talked about the problems many intenational stuents faced last fall when trying to get their visas to enter the country. More than a dozen students had to enroll late or defer their enrollment for a year...
...respect for our government should not diminish our skepticism about the war. I don’t mean to trivialize the war in Iraq, but I do mean to suggest that it is not enough to defer to the President. We have as much right to form our own opinions about war in Iraq as we have to decide which of this year’s movies was really best picture...
Here's why. The big tax-rule overhaul of 1997 let married homeowners filing jointly pocket up to $500,000 of their home-sale gains tax free, while single filers could keep $250,000. Until then, sellers could defer taxes only by plowing gains into a new house, then taking a once-in-a-lifetime exclusion of up to $125,000 at age 55 or older...
...angry left-wing elite to which we defer for our enlightened opinions tells us, protesting the white and “Eurocentric” state of academia is more important than whether the ideas we encounter here engage us, whether our education inspires us and whether professors take an active role in our intellectual growth...