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Today, fewer than 20 college seniors a year are admitted directly to HBS, Leopold says. Last spring, she says, another 20 were offered admission to the school, but were asked to defer for two years before starting in the fall...
...Finkbeiner asked to defer his position for a year to give his wife time to complete the job application process. Cram received an offer for an assistant professorship at Northeastern and both assumed their new posts this fall...
Some of the challenges go even deeper. "I did not realize how much women lack basic rights in this country," Dr. Julia Kim writes from Swaziland, north of Lesotho. Women traditionally turn over all their income to their husbands, she says, and defer to them on matters of treatment--a practice Kim struggled with when trying to convince one father that immediate care was needed for his daughter whose immune system had collapsed...
...told me Nasrallah's standing now is higher than that of Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khameini - which if true would be an earthshaking shift in the Middle East. Finally, considering that Hizballah's military forces are stronger and more disciplined than the Lebanese army's, why would Nasrallah defer to Lebanon's government on the tribunal, disarming, or anything else...
...Congress says, ‘Mr. President, you can’t do this,’ he must try to get the law changed and can’t just ignore that law in a series of secret memorandums.” Katyal added that while courts historically defer to the president during wartime, this deference exists for two reasons: the expertise of the military and diplomatic bureaucracy and the fact that the president is accountable to the electorate. “The case for deference is weakened when bureaucratic expertise is ignored,” Katyal said, noting...