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...Nashville, Tenn., applied to 13 schools--and wound up picking her last choice. She turned down Amherst, Wellesley and Dartmouth in favor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Part of the draw was being near a big city; part was the offer of a Meyerhoff scholarship, a prestigious, four-year grant for talented high school students studying science and related fields. All 52 Meyerhoff scholars from the class of 2005 went on to graduate schools, 45 of them to M.D., Ph.D. or M.D.-Ph.D. combination programs...
...private consultants fit into all this? As many as 1 in 5 applicants to private four-year colleges get some kind of independent coaching, which can range in price from $469 for Kaplan's three-hour consultation by webcam to $36,000 for four years of hand holding offered by superconsultant Michele Hernandez. Although consultants are easy to caricature for sanding down and varnishing a nice, raw kid, admissions officers insist that they can see past the polishing to the real human being beneath. How useful counselors are may depend as much on the attitude of the client...
...party had stronger ties to Tehran than to Washington. An ornery figure, al-Maliki is a backroom politician plainly ill at ease in public; few Iraqis had even heard of him, and few are convinced that his rancorous all-party government can last the year, much less its full four-year term...
...Those stories have been the focus of a four-year, $7 million investigation by special prosecutors, who released their findings Wednesday. Authors of the 292-page report, top prosecutors Edward J. Egan and Robert D. Boyle, said they had enough evidence to prove crimes against Burge and others, but "regrettably" could not bring charges because the statute of limitations had passed. After reviewing 148 cases, they said found three cases where they could prove in a court of law that Burge and four other officers were guilty of dereliction of duty, mistreatment of prisoners and abuse...
Given the public statements of the officials, it is highly unlikely that Fowler-Finn will receive a three- or four-year renewal this summer. Fantini and Grassi support a one-year extension, and Reeves and Nolan have very seldom had any praise for Fowler-Finn. Even if Schuster—who is no friend of the school administration—and Harding were to side with Walser, they would still be one vote short of reauthorizing the contract...