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...last snow slope to the summit. They were both very straightforward men. Tenzing was a professional mountaineer from the Sherpa community of the Everest foothills. After several expeditions to the mountain, he certainly wanted to get to the top for vocational reasons, but he also planned to deposit in the highest of all snows some offerings to the divinities that had long made Chomolungma sacred to his people. Hillary was by profession a beekeeper, and he would have been less than human if he had not occasionally thought, buckling his crampons, that reaching the summit would make him famous...
...attributes this to the fact that studentdeferrals are handled on a case-by-case basis,with some individuals deferring for years. The LawSchool asks students to submit a petition fordeferral by May 15, the due date for the firsttuition deposit...
Students are allowed two years to defer beforethe Law School starts pushing them to return andassume the spot held for them in the returningclass. Although those who defer still pay theinitial $500 deposit, the spot may be held formore than two years, given extenuatingcircumstances...
...Moynihan of New York and Robert Kerrey of Nebraska would allow workers to divert 2% into investment accounts but would lower guaranteed benefits to what could be financed out of the remaining 10.4%. Feldstein has an even better idea: keep present tax and benefit rates but have the government deposit into individual accounts an additional 2% of each worker's earnings, up to the prescribed annual taxable limit. On retirement the worker would repay Uncle Sam $3 of every $4 he or she had in the account. Taxpayers under this scheme might earn somewhat less, in total, than under Moynihan...
...theater design have been turned smartly on their head in the refurbishment. Gone is darkness: the theater has huge dramatic windows; curtains close over them to signal the beginning of a performance. One of the gigantic walk-in safes is now the box office; the other holds safe-deposit boxes (for storing personal items) that will be up for sale. Umbrellas left here should be the safest in New York City...