Though there's no way to tell how many people will enter, taking the time to fill out this form and mail it in (by April 21, no less) seems just as time consuming as doing taxes.
The old image of the athlete emerging from college intellectually as well as physically tested seems less and less a reality than a pleasant myth, though, of course, many student athletes still fit this description.
Watching a game on anything less suddenly seems as pointless as preferring black-and-white TV over color, mono over stereo, the Atari 2600 over the Xbox 360.
But even this protection, as important as it is, seems less than adequate when the record shows that all government requests for warrants for surveillance are granted by these courts.
Just as clearly, Clemens seemed less like a man ready to leave the stage last fall than one who was addicted to the spotlight.
An alternative scenario is that A. brunneus originated in Morocco and colonized the Iberian Peninsula in parallel with A. ramblae, but as well as being less parsimonious this hypothesis seems less plausible since some Iberian A. ramblae have mitochondrial haplotypes clustering with those from Morocco.
And in the general election his religion should be much less of handicap, since the population as a whole seems less bothered by it, and most evangelicals consider Mr Obama even more godless.Mr Romney's record as a businessman is also proving something of a double-edged sword.
And, strange as it seems less than two years after he was their presidential candidate, Mr McCain is now viewed by many as the quintessential RINO.
Similarly, its modest indictment of John Walker, "the American Talib" (not trying him for capital offences such as treason), seems less harsh than its treatment of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
Perry presenting himself as Tebow seems less grating when Gingrich begins comparing himself to Lincoln: I commended Megyn Kelley for raising it and staying on it.
