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...application process might seem paradoxical to some, especially when considered in the context of many of the University’s other schools, which have fought diligently for decades to maintain the nation’s most statistically exacting admissions standards. Last year, the College, for instance, admitted a mere 7.1 percent of applicants. Harvard Law School typically admits 11 percent of applicants, and Harvard Medical School admits just over 3 percent of candidates seeking admission...
...than $2 to buy a single coin with the Queen of England's face on it, Britain has gotten considerably cheaper - relatively. Book a spin on a "champagne flight" on the London Eye - the giant Ferris wheel (and millennial white elephant) on the banks of the Thames - for a mere $692. Or don't. (See 10 things to do in London...
...truth, it's not quite that bad for Dole. Most polls have shown the race to be tight, though over the last month and a half Hagan has had an average of a three or four point lead. But the mere fact that Dole felt she had to launch an attack on her opponent's faith shows how daunting the trends against Republicans like Dole are this election year...
...Democracy Alliance meeting. The donors felt they could accomplish more for gays if they shared information rather than operate as "silo" givers. Some members were frustrated that the established gay movement in Washington hadn't made greater progress in a society rapidly coming to see homosexuality as a mere variation rather than a moral degeneration...
...When I am President," the candidates declare - and off they go into dreamspeak, describing tax codes down to the last decimal point and sketching health-care reforms far beyond the power of any single person to enact. In their imaginary, reassuring cosmos, America is always a mere 10 years - and one new President - away from energy independence. And the ills of the federal budget can be cured simply by having an eagle-eyed leader go through it line by line. (See the next President's to-do list...