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Yale University saw only a marginal increase in the number of applicants this year, said Richard Shaw, Yale’s dean of admissions. However, more than 19,000 students—a record for Yale—applied for their Class of 2008 last year.
Some European analysts take heart from the idea that while Colin Powell, whom many had regarded as a kindred spirit, had been a marginal figure in the Bush administration, Dr. Rice is widely known to have the President's ear and to speak for him. President Bush's trust and...
Congress must, of course, repeal the offensive parts of this amendment immediately. Whatever marginal advantage the Byrd amendment might conceivably have given steel companies will clearly be outweighed by the $150 million of punitive tariffs that other countries will soon impose on American goods. Manufacturers in otherwise successful industries do...
Talk about it, and they might even vote for you: the government owes its fourth election win in part to candidates like Ferguson, a 30-year-old former campaigner against gay adoption who snatched Labor's key seat of Bass, in northern Tasmania; Louise Markus, a pentecostalist social worker who...
There's no risk, says Hogan, that Australia will imitate the U.S., where conservative Christians overwhelmingly vote Republican: "The major parties are happy to get the support of religious leaders, but if those leaders oppose them they tell them to get stuffed, basically." Still, says the ACL's Wallace, "politicians...