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Welcome to another installment of Twitter Thursdays, a weekly column in which we highlight the updates of the top MBA programs on Twitter!  If you’re not following Clear Admit already, be sure to check us out on Twitter for updates, special prizes, admissions tips and breaking news.   We’ve also created a list of MBA programs to ease your daily access to breaking news from the top MBA programs, as reported by admissions committee members themselves.

Though applicants are eager for news, The Assistant Dean of UCLA Anderson MBA Admissions & Financial Aid, Mae Jennifer Shores, noted that she can only promise Round 2 decisions will be released by March 31st.  Students and faculty at Berkeley / Haas ensured that Rich Lyons, the Dean of the Haas School of Business, had a full week; he received student support for a place in the dunk-tank and the faculty’s approval for the school’s new strategic plan.  Across the pond, MBA Admissions Coordinator at Judge Business School, James Barker, hosted several Round 3 candidates for Cambridge’s interview days.  Associate Dean for Student Recruitment and Admissions at Chicago Booth, Rose Martinelli, has yet to determine how the PowerPoint presentation will play a part in next year’s application – if it does at all.

After hosting admitted students this past weekend, Chicago Booth reached the Round 3 deadline.    Student teams at The Tuck School topped a few MBA competitions in modern business.  The Wharton School plugged professors’ publications and research to spread the word on Google, healthcare in India and the state of the U.S. economy. The Kellogg School of Management shared its faculty’s research on executive compensation and hedge fund regulation.

Thanks for tuning into Twitter Thursdays this week!  If you’re on Twitter, let us know; e-mail wiki@clearadmit.com with your user name and status as an MBA applicant, student or admissions officer so we can add you to the appropriate Twitter list.  Happy updating and we’ll see you next week with some more “tweets!”

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Filed under: Exclusives, Lil Wayne

Lil Wayne’s signature move in jail won’t have anything to do with his actual signature — TMZ has learned he’s been instructed not to sign a single autograph during his stint at Rikers Island. A rep for the Correction Officer’s Benevolent Association …

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Filed under: TV, DMX, Exclusives

DMX is the #1 draft pick to appear on the next season of “Celebrity Rehab” — that is, if the rehab people can somehow find a way to keep him from being locked up.DMX’s attorney, Gary Jenkins, tells TMZ reps for “Rehab” contacted him after X was …

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Like, apparently, everyone else on Twitter, I’m packing a bag right now and getting ready to fly to Austin for SXSW. I know this because while I pack I have TweetDeck open and a search for both SXSW and PACK.

@jendotu says, “All I wanna do is go home, poop and pack for #sxsw.”

Get it all out, @jendotu.

Unlike a lot of people, I’m not against this type of Tweet. I’m against this type of Tweet: “umm hello. Justin beiber. You are quite adorable. Just wanted you to know that. First love at 13? cant get any cuter then that” I hate it for the same reason you do – then vs than.

Let’s search CUTER and THEN together, together.

@Alohawazza “Somedays my weiner is cuter then usual.” That actually would work if she meant to have a comma after “cuter.” I would Tweet that, if I weren’t writing this. Life is about priorities. I would also make the obvious allusion to the Weiner thing. And then I’d think twice about that. I’m thinking twice right now. Back to packing. Or writing about packing.

I’m an over-the-shoulder guy. Rollers are for stewardesses and pilots. That’s not a Tweet. Could be, but I don’t like to assume that any thought I have under 140 characters is automatically a Tweet. That’s egotistical.

@pennykim Tweets, “OH (overheard): ‘Hold on, I’m talking to my dogs on speakerphone.’ #sxsw”

This is the problem. It’s not that @pennykim is abusing the hashtag principle. She is, in fact, at SXSW, I’m sure. But what she overheard doesn’t help me know what to expect while I’m out there. It’s an insanely amusing little story, one that I want to remember. (yes, I favorited it). But this “river of popular culture,” – I‘m positive somebody has referred to Twitter as a river at some time, but two pages into Google results and I can’t find the attribution, and two pages is my limit – is no place for a raft of one.

What I want is what everyone wants – a guide. No, an opinion. Not of tacos, but an opinion of what to do at SXSW that matches my opinion of what to do at SXSW if I was informed enough to have one. And tacos. And I’d be happy to give attribution, too. There’s plenty of what not to do. There’s a panel tomorrow called “How Not To Be A Douchebag At SXSW.” I don’t know how you can look yourself in the face if you’re either on the panel or in the audience for that one. But what about a thoughtful and considered opinion about which panels and which events and which sideshow attractions? Where are the people just like me, trying to make the same decisions I’m making? Everything is worth seeing, I’m sure. But puppies have to be slain. Who will slay the puppies? Not @Alohawazza. Not @pennykim. I’m over at a Ning group right now, called “SXSW Insider’s Guide.” Sounds promising. But it’s mostly a lot of people with questions. There are no answers. At least, not yet. I think that’s the point of it all. If I’m dipping my cup into the river – it was The New Yorker!!! George Packer and an article called “Stop The World.” What a relief. – If I’m dipping my cup into the river right at this very instant, it’s just a girl listening to her dogs on speakerphone.

Time to go pack, for real. Sleep well, tomorrow the dogs go hungry.

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Four more contestants were eliminated on American Idol: Katelyn Epperly, Todrick Hall, Alex Lambert and Lilly Scott. So this is the Top 12, the performers who get to go on tour and — no matter how soon they’re eliminated — get a shot at a career of some sort. (Has anyone in the Top 24 who didn’t make the Top 12 ever made a name for themselves?)

TOP 12

(in order of announcing on the show)

1. Didi Benami
2. Siobhan Magnus
3. Paige Miles
4. Casey James
5. Tim Urban
6. Lee Dewyze
7. Crystal Bowersox
8. Michael Lynche
9. Lacey Brown
10. Aaron Kelly
11. Andrew Garcia
12. Katie Stevens

I had a pretty good night prediction-wise: I predicted the bottom four of the women perfectly,but thought Katie Stevens would go home instead of Lilly Scott. I only predicted three of the four men in the bottom four (I thought Aaron would be in it, rather than Lee) and again only nailed one of the men going home, since I thought Andrew would go home instead of Alex.

The night began with another godawful lip-sync, this time of a Michael Buble song. Then we were told “breaking news” — the theme of the Top 12 performance night will be the music of the Rolling Stones. (I immediately started wondering what song would be good for Crystal.) Even better, they’re going to make the playlists of songs that the contestants choose from available on iTunes. This gives the fans a lot more to think about. iTunes lists 50 songs that the Top 12 can choose from. Assuming these are the only songs they get to select from, we have a much better insight into the options they’re given and how smart they are in their choice.

Then the Top 12 was slowly announced. Paige Miles and Katelyn Epperly faced off, with a resigned Katelyn going home and Paige heaving a huge sigh of relief (as I predicted). Todrick Hall and Lee Dewyze faced off, with Todrick still sporting the fingerless gloves that probably spelled his doom. (Todrick also gave a strong goodbye performance; he just needs a stylist.) Alex Lambert and Andrew Garcia faced off and Alex was devastated by being sent home. He was genuinely heartbroken, frustrated that he didn’t have the confidence to show his talent to the fullest. That was followed by a dueling pianos rendition of Billy Joel’s “Tell Her About It” (one of my favorite songs of his) by last season’s Scott McIntyre and Matt Giraud. After it was over, I wondered which one would be going home. (My pick would have been Scott.) Finally Katie and Lilly faced off and Lilly was sent home, to the astonishment of everyone.

So now we know the Top 12 and the playlist of 50 Rolling Stones songs they get to choose from. Here’s your chance to help your favorites on the show. Which song would you recommend they sing (and how, if you think they need to give it a new arrangement).

ROLLING STONE PLAYLIST

Angie
As Tears Go By
Beast of Burden
Black Limousine
Brown Sugar
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Country Honk
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
Emotional Rescue
Fool to Cry
Get Off My Cloud
Gimme Shelter
Happy
Hang Fire
Heart of Stone
Honky Tonk Women
Hot Stuff
It’s All Over Now
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Lady Jane
The Last Time
Let It Bleed
Live With Me
Love In Vain
Midnight Rambler
Miss You
Mother’s Little Helper
19th Nervous Breakdown
No Expectations
Paint It, Black
Play With Fire
Ruby Tuesday
Salt of the Earth
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Shattered
She Was Hot
She’s a Rainbow
She’s So Cold
Shine a Light
Start Me Up
Street Fighting Man
Sympathy for the Devil
Time Is On My Side
Too Tough
Tumbling Dice
Under My Thumb
Waiting On a Friend
Wild Horses
You Can’t Always Get What You Want

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One year ago this week many were wondering if the economy was going to collapse. The market found itself at 666 on the S&P. Most investors had once again lost 50% of their life savings for the second time in less than 10 years.

I was seriously worried that we were not going to be able to break out of the economic "death spiral" that started in the fall of 2008.

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David Goldman submits:

I was on The Kudlow Report last night. Here are the notes I sent to the CNBC producers for the show:

On Corporate Bond Spreads:

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Maximum Income a Married Couple with Two Children Can Earn and Pay NO Federal Income TaxFrom The Tax Foundation:

“A nonpaying tax return is one filed by an individual or couple who, thanks to legal credits and deductions, owes nothing. Nonpaying status used to be a sure sign of poverty or near-poverty, but Congress and the President have changed the tax laws to pull much of the middle class into the growing pool of nonpayers. The income level at which a typical family of four will owe no income taxes has risen rapidly, now topping $51,000 (see chart above).”

As a result, recently released IRS data for the 2008 tax year show that a record 51.6 million filers had no income tax obligation (see chart, click to enlarge). That means more than 36% of all Americans who filed a tax return for 2008 were nonpayers, raising serious doubts about the ability of the income tax system to continue funding the federal government’s ballooning expenditures.

Bottom Line: Over the past two decades, Washington lawmakers have increasingly turned to the tax code to deliver social benefits, incentivize behaviors, and funnel money to targeted groups, which they always refer to as “helping the middle class.” These measures have not only added complexity to an already Byzantine tax system, they have also eliminated the income tax obligation for millions of tax filers and their families. As a result, a record 51.6 million tax filers—36 percent of all filers—had little or no connection with the basic costs of government in 2008.

Tax years 2009 and 2010 are likely to produce a number of nonpayers equal to or greater than in 2008 because of Obama’s new tax credits targeted at lower- and middle-income taxpayers. As the number of refundable tax credits continues to grow, more and more tax filers are seeing the IRS as a source of income, not something to which taxes are paid. The consequences of these trends deserve a broader national discussion than either party in Washington seems willing to engage in.”

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Following up on this recent CD post, this is from today’s WSJ:

“Airlines are pushing back against new rules that give fliers more rights. They are threatening to cancel scores of flights in response to a new rule that would prohibit airlines from keeping passengers on the tarmac for more than three hours without giving travelers the opportunity to get off the plane. As of April 29, carriers that break the rule would face steep fines of up to $27,500 per passenger, or more than $4 million on a full Boeing 737 or Airbus A320.

Carriers say that to avoid those fines, they will aggressively cancel flights before and during storms—even if the bad weather never materializes. The threats could foreshadow significant changes in air travel, making it even less reliable for millions of road warriors and vacationers. By canceling flights, it could take days for all travelers to get home when storms strike.”

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