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...from Early Action bode well for another economically diverse class,” Director of Financial Aid Sarah C. Donahue said in a statement.Fitzsimmons said the admissions office also uses fee waiver requests to gauge the prospective number of HFAI-eligible applicants. The College received 2,353 requests, the exact number it received for the Class of 2009, a coincidence Fitzsimmons called “eerie.”A record 51.6 percent of this year’s pool is comprised of women, a number that has been rising since the Class of 2008, when female applicants first overtook...
...denouncing the AMT's growing burden as a terrible problem, the Bush budget's long-term numbers count on it. When asked by TIME if keeping Americans from creeping into the AMT would cost the Treasury a lot, Bolten said: "It would increase the deficit. I don't have exact numbers on how large, and I believe even if the Congress were to decide to patch the AMT indefinitely, we would still show a very substantially declining deficit path." But some estimates, including those of the Congressional Budget Office, show AMT relief would cost $914 billion over the next decade...
...move across the continent and then outside of U.S. territory for medical attention? On Friday, Mexican authorities, after inspecting the facility after the death of Mrs. King from complications of ovarian cancer, shut down the Hospital Santa Monica, citing a number of what they described as unauthorized procedures. No exact count of American patients in Mexican clinics exists, but the website Quackwatch.org which tries to police the medical industry for unethical and illegal conduct, estimates that as many as 10,000 patients check into these centers every year...
...can’t really give you an exact date,” he said. “I’ll probably have a clearer idea over the course of the next year...
...Democracy requires the exact opposite. It demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions. That takes time, the careful accumulation of the habits of citizenship. Bush's "gift" formulation sends exactly the wrong message; it leads people to believe that all they need is a purple finger and life will get better. The President seems a victim of that same delusion: he seems to believe that we can get away with promoting democracy through glorious rhetoric without doing the slow, expensive, heavy lifting of nation building. It is easy to talk about the need for decent...