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...their first meetings with the Committee on Undergraduate Education, Seton, council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00 and committee chair John Paul Rollert '00 argued strongly against abolishing the use of Advanced Placement (AP) test scores to gain exemptions from Core science classes...
...often are, great. They just aren't intellectuals. Sure, that first night the entire dorm gathered in somebody's common room and shared a bunch of ideas about what college was supposed to be, about where they were from and what they thought was really important, but the minute placement tests came along, let alone classes and extracurriculars, everyone was holed up in their room, hard at work or hard at play, and the great intellectual college conversations you had dreamed of became the thing of nostalgia and viewbooks...
...only is the United States the "only developed country to get a break" in UN dues--its dues are capped at 25 percent even though it constitutes 29 percent of the world economy--but the placement of the UN headquarters in New York City pumps $3.2 billion into the American economy each year...
...many recent efforts to investigate the racial health care gap, found that white people with kidney failure were about 4 percent more likely to want a transplant than are black people. But black people were more than 20 percent less likely to be referred for evaluation and placement on a transplant wait-list...
...annuities is that they are tax-deferred products. So companies like life insurers that sell annuities within tax-deferred, retirement accounts such as 401(k)s or IRAs aren't offering added value, just added profits. Bring on the lawyers. Insurance companies "shouldn't be marketing deferred annuities for placement in retirement plans," says Michael Spencer, partner at Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, which has filed class actions against four big annuity sellers. "The consumer ends up paying substantially higher fees than if they bought a nonannuity investment...