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...applied himself." With eight years in the Senate, his legislative record was thin. Says a former adviser: "While the Senate is filled with ambitious men who aren't in a rush to get home at night, Senator Thompson kept a lean formal schedule, did the bare minimum to get by and then hightailed [it] to the Prime Rib or the Capital Grille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Role for Fred Thompson | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...think you’re looking at a minimum of a $100,000 entrance fee” to the race, said a politician who declined to be named because of his working relationship with many of the candidates. According to their most recent state campaign financial filings, Galluccio has about $9,000 in cash on hand, and Wolf has about...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Barrios Departs, Race Opens | 5/23/2007 | See Source »

...overall parity has been repeatedly confirmed by independent audits (including a recent study). Recently, this grievance has morphed into something marginally more sensible: The assertion that workers are “basically getting parity to crappy wages.” But by what standard is more than double the minimum wage “crappy?” The campaign cherry-picks comparisons with the some of the U.S.’s highest-paid security guards (including Stanford’s over $20 an hour starting salary) and asserts that Harvard is paying below the “market...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Striking Zealotry | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

Affordabletermpapers.com charges a minimum of $9.95 per page for a custom-written essay. Rush jobs cost $24.95 a page. The site, which dutifully states that its papers should be used for "assistance purposes only"--uh-huh--guarantees that customers won't run into trouble with plagiarism or they'll get their money back and a free rewrite. There are hundreds of online paper mills like this one, catering to all the stressed-out, disaffected or just plain lazy students with Internet access and a credit card or money order. But just as the Internet has made it easier for kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Term-Paper Cheats | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

Created in the early 1980’s to maintain minimum levels of academic excellence in the Ivy League, the AI combines one’s highest SAT I and SAT II scores with high school class rank in order to assign each applicant a value ranging from 60 to 240. The league then sets three main controls: first, it establishes a universal floor, below which any candidate must also possess extenuating circumstances in order to be admitted; second, it mandates that the average AI of a given year’s aggregate recruiting class must fall within one standard...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How Fair is Fair Harvard? | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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