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...employed in place of eliminating transfer admissions. By accepting a smaller freshman class this year, the Office of Admissions should be able to reinstate the transfer program in a year, instead of the current (at least) two-year hiatus. Most troubling about this decision is its timing and its lack of transparency. The decision was announced well after the application deadline, rendering applicants’ time, energy, and money moot. Almost all of the 1,308 rejected applicants were full-time college students balancing full academic and extra-curricular lives while going through the college application process a second time...
...Bellemare makes no apologies for the lack of information. "Given the need to preserve confidentiality in its investigations, the commission will not be disclosing any names," the report said. "Names of individuals will only appear in future indictments filed by the prosecutor, when there is sufficient evidence...
...share some common elements: marital infidelity and alleged criminal acts (perjury for Clinton and violation of the Mann Act for Spitzer). Isn't it curious that at the end of the day, Clinton stayed in office because of his popularity and Spitzer got thrown under the bus for his lack of it? It's little wonder the public has so little regard for elected officials. Scott Thompson, DALLAS...
...same time, NPB teams lack what might be called the "trade advantages" of their North American counterparts, namely, stadium subsidies, salary depreciation allowances and the anti-trust exemption which helps free up millions upon millions of dollars for MLB teams to spend on raiding Japan's top stars. Most MLB teams use stadiums for little or nothing, having strenuously convinced the cities they play in to build new facilities for them. By contrast The Tokyo Giants pay $250,000 a game to use the Tokyo Dome, while the Softbank Hawks pay $40 million dollars a year to use a similar...
...military has reinforced wide - and extremely rare - political consensus on the funding and use of French forces. It is that sweeping support that has left France's troops better-funded and more frequently dispatched to international crises or conflicts than other European forces, which have generally shrunk for lack of financial and political backing. But sending new French troops into an increasingly chaotic Afghanistan without a clear victory plan could eventually create the kinds of doubts in public opinion, observers warn - and make France's military a point of political jousting once again...