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...matriculate. No one is denying that the visiting freshmen should be allowed to apply for transfer status under the standard timetable of a February 2006 deadline for September 2006 (or February 2007) enrollment. To establish a separate transfer admissions cycle for only eight students, however, would be impractical and unfair to the hundreds of other students who apply for transfer admission each year. If Harvard were to accept a substantial number of Tulane applicants, the acceptance rate of this special pool would far exceed the single-digit figures that perennially govern the ultra-competitive transfer application process, which would...
...race for Undergraduate Council (UC) president and vice president heats up, a final third ticket has emerged while complaints about unfair campaigning have already surfaced...
Allies of the President argue this is an unfair portrayal of the administration’s position. Such apologists raise a common, but misleading hypothetical. Suppose, they argue, authorities hold a terrorist with information about a ticking time bomb, and if they torture him to get the information they will be able to save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Those who oppose torture are called naïve because they reject the conclusion that torture would be justified in such a case. But the analogy itself demonstrates a misunderstanding about the complexities of intelligence gathering...
...markets," says National Cotton Council (NCC) vice chairman Allen Helms Jr. The NCC says it is prepared to accept subsidy cuts only if other sectors also take a hit?and if the WTO examines support for man-made fibers. "We will oppose any agreement that singles out cotton for unfair, special treatment," Helms told a Senate committee...
...There's no question that the multilateral system governing global trade remains inherently unfair, tilted in favor of the U.S. and the E.U., which have long set the agenda. Failure to correct the flaws means that the politics of trade will just get nastier. The global economy stands to lose out, too. It's widely assumed that new tariff cuts and the removal of trade barriers would substantially boost growth. Estimates of the size of that boost vary widely, from labor union economists, who say it would be minimal, to the University of Michigan, which figures a reduction of trade...