When researchinglaw schools, the typical applicant compares schools based on rank, location, program substance and many other factors mostly related to academics or long-term career goals. However, one of the most often overlooked characteristics of a school – and one of the most impactful ones ...
Sigel was commissioned as a colonel of the 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment in the Union Army, and by August of that year, we are told that President Lincoln had elevated him to the rank of Brigadier-General.Sigel was listed as having been involved in five civil war battles – Battle of ...
Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown University Law School who co-founded the Transition Integrity Project, told me she and her colleagues weren’t interested in predicting the likelihood of any one scenario they looked at, but more so in understanding the range of possibilities. Ultimately, the...
What I did not see enough of in this book was a deeper dive into the components of Islam that are perverted and used most to motivate the radicals. For example, some sources say that the ultimate vision of Islam is a global caliphate under Sharia law, which will only come about in a ...
As illustrated in the above visualization, each increase in country rank bySocial Progress Indexis associated with an average decrease in approximately one rank byincarceration rate(beta = -0.97; p < 0.05). Because incarceration requires economic resources, this analysis includes only the 50 most de...
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Some minority group leaders objected, claiming that without the preferential hiring policy, the police and fire departments would revert to being predominantly White and that while racial parity existed among "the rank and file" in the departments, it did not among "the people who make the ...
“He would drive conversations with questions that were not typical of conversations I was having with anyone, regardless of rank,” Bruggeman said. “He was very curious as to the purpose of our involvement. Austin has a refined sense of justice.” When, two weeks after announcing his new ...
8. Georgetown Antique Mall The first of two Georgetown appearances on this list takes us to its antique mall, a shopper's dream stop where the door hinges are constantly busy. And, as you can imagine, this place is a gold mine at Christmas time. ...
It’s also a good way to gauge how competitive you are for different law schools. For example, if your percentile rank is 70% for the October LSAT exam, that means that you scored equal to or higher than 70% of test-takers, and the same or lower than 30% of test-takers who sat ...