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...have gone to needier students who, while academically qualified for top colleges, are less likely to have the highest SAT scores or class rank. Yet many colleges feel compelled to spend what it takes to enroll anyone whose numbers will improve their standing in the national rankings, which often seal their reputations among applicants...
...while it is one thing to do business with China in the hopes of effecting the eventual fall of Beijing’s Communist regime, it is quite another thing to bestow upon that regime the seal of international approval associated with the Olympics. The free nations of the world often trade with countries whose policies they disagree with while simultaneously encouraging those countries to make political reforms...
They were so, so close. The Democrats slipped into the chamber to huddle with a visibly tense Daschle. Back in the L.B.J. Room, Thompson proffered one last piece to seal the deal: the G.O.P. had moved much further on the hard-money limits; if the Democrats would index the limits for inflation, they had a deal. Feinstein shot out of the room to take the offer to Daschle, and for a few final moments the Republicans waited. When the deal was done, Thompson grabbed his throat with both hands, mock-choking over the compromise he had struck...
...Sharon's strategy has been to eliminate the lag time between a Palestinian attack and an Israeli retaliation; use tank shells, rockets and mortars in response to shooters; deploy helicopter gunships to selectively assassinate suspected militants; work behind the lines to capture enemy soldiers; and if necessary, seal off entire Palestinian neighborhoods and conduct house-to-house searches. And Sharon has instructed Peres to tell the Palestinians that all that there is to talk about is stopping the violence...
...however, parlay that ancient history into a modern-day phobia. It may be our distant ancestors who predispose us to phobias, but it's our immediate ancestors--specifically our parents--who seal the deal. As many as 40% of all people suffering from a specific phobia have at least one phobic parent, seemingly a clue that phobias could be genetically influenced. In recent years, a number of scientists have claimed to have found the phobia gene, but none of those claims have held up to scrutiny. If phobias are genetically based at all, they almost certainly require a whole tangle...