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...admitted to Miami Dade's honors program, students need either a minimum 3.7 high school grade-point average or 1800 on the new SAT (26 on the ACT), and they have to maintain a 3.5 GPA to stay in. More than half the 60 credits the students must complete have to be in challenging honors-level courses. Honors students are offered free courses in Europe or at top-flight schools like Smith College. In addition, some 90 four-year schools, including Smith and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, have agreements with Miami Dade that, in some cases, guarantee...
...ensure the safety of students and students’ property, a Harvard student-manager escorts two professional cleaners to the room which they are scheduled to clean. The purchaser is required to be there to, at a minimum, allow the cleaner and student crew access to the room. The clients, company and staff are all protected by a combination of insurance and bonding...
...court dedicated to drug cases, where young narcotics offenders receive intensely monitored probation. And Lee has been appointed a special U.S. Attorney, giving him the power to prosecute weapons-for-drugs cases in federal court--a statute that doesn't exist on Virginia state books--where convictions carry a minimum penalty of five years in prison. Says Tazewell sheriff's captain Clarence Tatum: "If we could get rid of Oxy and all the related drugs, we'd wipe out 75% of the crime in this county...
...with the leaders of the conservative opposition in a much ballyhooed "jobs summit." But like so many attempted German reforms of recent years, the plan seems likely to get diluted by political haggling and could end up doing little to create jobs. The jobs summit achieved only a minimum of agreement on Germany's economic future, and much of Schröder's package seemed like tinkering. He offered new tax breaks to small- and medium-sized companies, and proposed rules that would let the unemployed take jobs while retaining some of their benefits. He also said he'll spend...
...reform is on the national agenda again. Yet no one is doing anything about the most dreaded levy of them all: the alternative minimum tax. You have probably heard about the AMT and may have to pay it soon enough if you aren't already doing so. Join the club. Here's a primer on the most reviled tax since the Boston Tea Party...