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...inappropriately executed. We do not question the idea that transferring is a privilege, not a right. Princeton does not have a transfer program, and Yale admits no more than 24 applicants annually. At Harvard, the number of admitted transfers has been notoriously temperamental: after a five-year downward trend, no transfers were admitted in the spring of 2003. Since then, the number has been rising steadily, averaging between 50 and 75. Although the 2007 announcement to halve the number of transfers ignited petitions of angry students, Harvard administrators have, both historically and in recent memory, reaffirmed the importance...
Though medicine has traditionally been a high-paying profession, Flier noted the “recent trend that starting salaries in medicine are lagging increases in educational debt.” He said that he has firsthand experience with the costs of medical education because his daughter recently attended medical school...
...Harare press conference Sunday, M.D.C. secretary general Tendai Biti announced, on the basis of predominantly urban results already in, a sweeping vote for his party, which is led by former trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai. "We have won this election," said Biti. "The trend is irreversible." He said he was passing on results already posted publicly at local polling stations. Before announcing results Monday morning, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, which will collate the vote centrally, has demanded the police arrest those announcing regional results before it announces the national result. "Can you arrest someone because he is just repeating what...
...With the Medellin case, the Supreme Court may have accelerated that trend. By ruling that most traditional treaties only become the law of the land if the full Congress "implements" them, the justices made it more likely that political leaders will opt to pass them as if they were a domestic law. (The Court has previously upheld the full enforceability of treaties passed in that manner...
...effort to maintain the precarious ceasefire renewed by Sadr in February, both coalition forces and the Iraqi military have carefully avoided referring to the armed fighters as Sadr's supporters, but rather as unaffiliated criminals and thugs. "The operation in Basra, it's not against a particular political trend," Iraqi military spokesman Major General Aziz Mohammed told reporters at a press conference on Thursday. "Those who open fire are not Jaish al-Mahdi [Sadr's Mahdi Army]... I don't think that any member of a political group could open fire on Iraqi forces because they are coming to protect...