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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

FEULNER: The Year of School Choice - Washington Times

FEULNER: The Year of School Choice - Washington Times

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MBA admissions tips from the pros - The Washington Post

MBA applicants must successfully navigate five major hurdles
to gain admission into the school of their choice: application essays,
letters of recommendation, academic credentials, work experience and and an entrance interview.

Here are tips that admissions officers from five top-ranked MBA programs shared on each of these
application components at a recent admissions panel sponsored by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. (Kaplan is owned by The Washington Post Co., publisher of The Washington Post.)
MBA admissions tips from the pros - The Washington Post

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Sunday, August 7, 2011

A Few More Charts That Should Accompany All Debt Ceiling Discussions by MEGAN MCARDLE

This chart from the White House, which purports to prove, with the scientific magic of math, that basically everything bad that has happened to the budget is the fault of one George W. Bush, has been making the rounds. My colleague approvingly calls it "Another chart that should accompany all debt ceiling discussions".

I'm a little less enamored, considering that this graph attributes decisions made by Obama and an all-Democratic Congress--like doubling down in Afghanistan--to Bush, while taking responsibility for basically nothing except the stimulus. When Obama extends the Bush tax cuts for the rich under pressure from Congressional Republicans, that disappears from his side of the ledger, because after all, he didn't want to do it. When Bush enacts Medicare Part D under pressure from Congressional Democrats, the full cost is charged against his presidency. The list of such silliness goes on. Our president seems set to coin another presidential motto: "The duck starts here."

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