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...admissions camps are the worst development yet in an already alarming trend. If these programs actually live up to their grandiose claims—admittedly a rather generous assumption—they put applicants who cannot afford their astronomical costs at a disadvantage in the admissions game. They also ratchet up the tremendous pressures students already face when applying to colleges. The Musiker program insists on its website that “the school you attend will help determine your future—your career, your lifetime friends, even where you’ll live and work after college?...
...cowed Democrats on the issue by labeling any single-payer proposal as “Hillarycare” or “socialized medicine”. And the public pays the price—literally, in the form of escalating health insurance costs. Every year, health insurance costs ratchet up about 15 percent, and over 41 million Americans currently have no coverage at all. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has shown how imperfect information in private health insurance markets forces up premiums, and how mandatory public health insurance programs can overcome this market failure. But any Democrat who dares...
Sharon is determined to seize back the initiative from his critics by pressing forward with his disengagement plan. He surprised Likud Party members last week by announcing that he will ask them to vote on his plan next month. He hopes to ratchet up pressure on right-wing members of the Knesset, who oppose any abandonment of settlements in the occupied territories, to go along with the plan to withdraw from Gaza, which enjoys the support of most grass-roots Likud members and a majority of Israeli voters. Sharon aims to bypass his political opponents by appealing to a broader...
...really needed to ratchet up our focus out there,” Keller said. “Had we been playing a team with better ability we would have been in a lot of trouble, and that’s what I tried to tell [the team...
...We’ve had a pretty competitive schedule to this point, and now its time to ratchet it up a little bit,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone. “But these are the kind of games you’re looking forward...