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Other than the mysterious substance used to smear the formula of ozone on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Courses of Instruction, this year's catalog differs from last year's in several ways...
There is no formula to gauge whether a student should be admitted or rejected, admissions officials say, and subjective criteria such as extracurricular activities and personal qualities also play a significant role. The Stonecypher complaint takes issue with the soft criteria the admissions office uses, and focuses on the issue of race...
...running on Wall Street and create another frenzied wave of mortgage refinancing. Before interest rates plunged in recent years, homeowners clung to a rule of thumb that said people should refinance only when rates fell at least two percentage points below the interest on their existing loans. Under that formula, the gains from lower mortgage rates would exceed the closing costs on the refinancing. But today banks and mortgage brokers offer so many refinancing options that canny rate surfers can replace their mortgages at little cost. Since 1991, consumers have refinanced $1 trillion worth of mortgages, or fully one-third...
...into stars, conducted elevator races in the hallway. His medium-twisting inventiveness was influenced by Ernie Kovacs, his man-on-the- street playfulness by Steve Allen. But Letterman seasoned them with his own sardonic, cranky, cooler-than-cool personality. For a young generation of viewers bored with television's formula and fakery, Letterman was fresh, liberating, indispensable...
...Clintonian 1990s, the President and his wife aren't the only Washington couple whose careers are brilliantly synergistic. Here's a list of some of the others, ranked by their GorbScore, a rating from 1 to 10 derived from a formula that measures the couple's influence and charm, using as a benchmark the models of modern power partnership, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev...