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Carolyn A. Sheehan ’08, another of the 21 students granted direct admission so far, has decided to defer for two years, making her a member of the MBA Class...
...person brings enough experience to bear on their MBA application, Leopold said, “We can admit them directly to the Business School, meaning that they could arrive in Cambridge that September. However, we would have a follow-up call where the senior could defer if they wanted to, based on wanting work experience or participating in a joint program with another graduate school...
...successful 1976 Senate campaign of Pennsylvania Congressman John Heinz that gave Garin enough of a bug for politics that he decided to defer going to law school. It was also where he met pollster Peter Hart, who hired him two years later and made him president of Hart Research Associates in 1984. And law school? "I think I'm on my 35th deferral," Garin says with a laugh...
...Events since March 10 have marked a watershed for the thousands of Tibetans, mostly youngsters, who disagree with the Dalai Lama's moderation but have been conditioned to defer to their spiritual leader. While China's restrictions on the media make it extremely difficult to know what exactly sparked the uprising within Tibet, many young Tibetans outside their homeland feel it is time to stop being pushed around by Beijing. "His Holiness is a monk, he advises patience," says Nwawang, a 33-year-old chef who fled Tibet for India over 10 years ago. "But we can't leave things...
...sell him a piece of property; Eliot then couldn't afford the rent when a roll of the dice landed him on that property. "He didn't realize his own rights," Bernard told Masters years later, adding that he had taught his son a lesson: "Never defer to authority...