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...dozen or more mid-sized BMOCs (and increasingly, BWOCs) who operate in decidedly narrow orbits." Nowhere is that more true than here. It is no wonder that an admissions process that favors overachievers should produce a campus with seemingly more clubs, groups, teams and organizations than students. Amid the alphabet soup of student groups it's hard enough just to keep track of who the leaders are, much less determine how to allocate our finite capital of esteem (after all, if everyone were equally respected, then no one would be respected...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: The Eclipse of the Campus Superstar | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...bone-marrow transplants was misconstrued as a liver contract. Another is that Physician's Health Plan was confused with another provider that is also sometimes referred to as PHP: Partners National Health Plan, a North Carolina insurer that does have a liver-transplant contract with Duke. "It's an alphabet soup out there," complains Karyn Bowie, director of managed care at MUSC. "The complexity of the system and how rapidly it changes from one day to the next make the job very tough," says MUSC's Dr. Rubin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biggest Fight of Shotgun's Life | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

Sure, there are Chinese Web sites out there. There are now quite a range of ways in which to input Chinese characters into computers, but the Chinese written language prevents them from ever being as easy to use as keyboarding in the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Furthermore, there is extra software required to read most of the Chinese sites...

Author: By Dawn Lee, | Title: POSTCARD FROM HONG KONG | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...fabulous show right from the start. It [the alphabet] was more fun than anything else. They had celebrities reciting the alphabet," she says. "Children learned...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HOW THEY GOT TO... | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...according to Chall, the response teaching the alphabet garnered was one of the first indications of the show's viability...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HOW THEY GOT TO... | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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