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About a dozen transfer and non-transfer students met yesterday to draft a petition in response to the College’s decision to reduce the number of transfers it plans to admit...
...News compiles lists because, well, readers buy them, but lists can invite gamesmanship. This year, however, a small but growing number of schools are starting to fight back. Or preparing to fight back. O.K., contemplating fighting back. The heads of a dozen private colleges are waiting for the final draft of a letter they will probably sign and send within the next few weeks to their counterparts at 570 or so small to midsize schools asking whether they would be willing to pull out of the U.S. News survey, stop filling out part of it, stop advertising their ranking...
After Tribe agreed to take the case, he enlisted the help of several students and research assistants. Research Assistant Warren D. Postman said the students and assistants participated in making the first draft of Tribe’s oral arguments...
...sure how much of that language made it into the final draft,” Postman said...
...this prerogative was unlikely to provoke the “micromanagement” feared by critics, noting that it had no historical precedent and stressing the difficulty of mustering enough votes to bypass a Presidential veto. But Feldman, who was appointed in 2003 by the Bush administration to help draft the Iraqi constitution, emphasized Presidential primacy, saying that precedent was “not determinative” in the context of modern warfare, citing differences in scope, field communication, and feedback mechanisms that have fundamentally transformed the nature of battlefield command—certainly since the penning of the Constitution...