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Jettisoning early admission, Fitzsimmons said, is “certainly a win for students in the bottom quarter and bottom half of the income distribution.” Students from more affluent families often apply early to express special interest in a particular school, while students from lower socioeconomic levels frequently hold off for the regular admissions process in order to compare colleges’ financial aid offers...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Rejects Early Admissions | 9/12/2006 | See Source »

...they look outward for their most spectacular villains. The expectation that an Arab/Islamic terrorist would have his finger on the trigger shows how meekly Americans have ceded the top spot in crazy political violence to newcomers from abroad. We have a rich and disgraceful history of political violence in particular and gun violence in general. 9/11 may have changed a lot of things, but it didn't instantly turn all foreigners into assassins, or all our homegrown criminal population into pacifists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Killed George Bush? | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...Trading Up, I talked to a lot of people about new luxury, and consumers?mostly women?would say, "You only got half the story. You got the trade-up part, but in order for me to afford to trade up, I cut corners." They would tell me stories about particular treasures that they had found. So the book became a demonstration of the fact that the middle-class consumer is actually saving money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Michael Silverstein | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

Suren Moodliar of the Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition expressed distaste for Cheney’s ability to raise money: “I am appalled that he can go around raising money now that the party and he, in particular, have demonstrated to be so morally bankrupt...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Avoiding Protestors, Cheney Visits Boston | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

Tuesday, Sept. 5, she made her much anticipated debut on the CBS Evening News. America had been buzzing about her since the spring, and much rode on her premiere, in particular the career of a celebrity with whom America has had an intense love-hate relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Guns and Top Secrets | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

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