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...into the press, but documents generated by the federal investigation challenge the popular view of academe as a bastion of high-minded collegiality. At regular intervals, financial-aid officers met to compare the aid packages each planned to offer individual students. When variances arose, the group agreed to split the difference. In one case, M.I.T.'s assistant aid director found himself compelled to increase a family's contribution more than 30%. Next to the student's name, he wrote, "Don't like it, but..." then went ahead and raised it. The cost to a school of defying the group...
Israel's actions in Jerusalem are pre-empting the result of any such negotiations. Here is a simple analogy: while you and I are trying to agree on how split a cake between us, I go ahead...
Back when the first news of successful human cloning was announced, humanity split into two irreconcilable camps: those who said, "How demonic!" and those, like myself--beloved and durable film star Corey Holiday--who said, "Hey! Where do I send my money?" In those glorious late-1990s days of film screenings, PETA rallies and fragrance launches, guests at events invariably divided into the anticloners, with their earnest discussions of ethics, inbreeding and hillbilly'ed gene pools, and those like myself, so eager and so thrilled to be able to bring humanity the gift of such tried-and-true looks, talent...
...anted her marriage annulled. Lawyers for Saima's parents argued that the tenets of Islam prohibit women from marrying without parental permission -- and indeed such permission is the norm in Pakistan. The judges ruled that Saima's marriage was valid a nd did not violate Islamic doctrine. What the split on was whether the law permits women to make their own choices in marriage. One of the three judges said the marriage should be annulled. Another said it was legal. The third came out somewhere in the m iddle, saying women normally need their parents' permission to marry, but that...
...thing stands out between these teams. Back in January, when Harvard beat Dartmouth in Hanover to salvage a season split, the Big Green players were unusually morose in the post-game press conference. It was like someone had died...