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...though an official at Jared’s own high school acknowledged that the scion’s GPA and SATs didn’t merit Harvard admission, he nonetheless won a spot in the Class of ’03. In sum, the examples of admissions-for-donations quid-pro-quos in Golden’s book amount to many millions of dollars in revenue for Harvard. If the University did away with legacy preferences and development admits, it would watch a weighty wad of cash go away as well...
...they all follow said, "By their fruits you will know them," and for some, Corinthian Pointe is a very convincing sort of fruit. Hard-line Prosperity theology may always seem alien to those with enough money to imagine making more without engaging God in a kind of spiritual quid pro quo. And Osteen's version, while it abandons part of that magical thinking, may strike some as self-centered rather than God centered. But American Protestantism is a dynamic faith. Caldwell's version reminds us that there is no reason a giving God could not invest even an awkward...
...Iran's track record suggests it might agree to suspend uranium enrichment, but probably not as a precondition for talks - which they would see giving up leverage with no quid pro quo - but rather as an outcome of talks. Tehran did, in fact, suspend uranium enrichment, under monitoring by the IAEA, during the three years of nuclear negotiation with Britain, France and Germany. But those talks went nowhere, and Larijani is reported to believe that Iran surrendered too much leverage and weakened its position. Iranian leaders also believe the open-ended nature of those talks allowed the Europeans to play...
...intent on pursuing an excellent education while playing their sport for passion, not for a scholarship. By instituting an Ivy signing date, players would be free to visit several schools and collect offers before making a final decision. This would reduce the pressure on athletes to make a quid pro quo verbal commitment to a coach, alleviate the amount of lying from all parties, and put an end to the tampering that occurs when coaches do not honor a player’s verbal commitment to attend another Ivy institution...
...Republican National Committee so that they could take those funds and put them in states that accepted, legally, corporate funds for campaigns. And the Republican Party is supposed to-it's supposed to participate in the elections in the state of Texas, and they did. There was no quid pro quo. There was no exchange of funds. The moneys collected in Texas ended up in other states. And hard moneys legally raised by the Republican National Committee ended up in Texas...