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...ALL-AROUND # 1 Millennium Force, Cedar Point, Ohio The tallest (310 ft.) and fastest (92 m.p.h.) full-circuit coaster in the U.S.--the wait is an hour-plus, down from five when it first opened...
...number of spots. But as Rachel Toor, a former admissions office at Duke University, explains in her newly published tell-all, "Admissions Confidential," colleges like Duke are now casting about for a different breed of student. For years, the conventional wisdom has held that admissions committees rewarded all-around applicants (hence the whole generation of parents who've nourished their children on a steady diet of piano lessons, soccer games and pottery classes from birth). Today, writes Toor, "most of the students I meet on my travels are BWRKs. That's admissionsese for bright well-rounded kids. You know...
...city's police chief. He says random quarter-to-quarter fluctuations in the data would produce misleading headlines, like RACIAL PROFILING ON THE RISE IN PITTSBURGH. McNeilly says a federal auditor has consistently found that the city's police stop minorities in "pretty close" proportion to their all-around presence in the population...
...that the scandal-trained media had ignored the story before. It was July 4 week, with its congressional recess and all-around dearth of news, that marked the Condit tale's ascendancy into the tier just below Monica and O.J. and Jon-Benet. But there was still more unsaid than said, some restraint in the airwaves. Condit's leaked admission was the cutting of the leash...
...stockholder and employee of the fabulous company known as AOL Time Warner, parent company of TIME, I wanted to see this corporation strike an accord with mighty Microsoft last week. But as a citizen of the global village and all-around guy of the people, I was thrilled when the deal dropped dead. The company stooge in me drooled at the prospect of the two biggest players in Computerville divvying up the market. AOL would get premium distribution and placement in the October release of Windows XP, helping it add gazillions of new users to its rolls. In exchange, Microsoft...