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...university grants a candidate "extra points" for a variety of reasons, including a high-quality essay, athletic participation, geographic location and parental alum status. These reasons can be divided into two categories--merit and non-merit. Clearly, a strong essay or a commitment to athletics is deserving of merit, whereas a person's skin color, residence or parents are hardly indicative of achievement. In lumping these two separate and distinct categories together, the University of Michigan heads down the wrong path...
...when the Harvard administration decides to act tyrannically, revoking from students and alum their liberty to consume beer from kegs at a festive occasion such as the Harvard-Yale game (News, Dec. 14). As a minor I cannot drink, but I do have some thoughts on the issue...
Adams House alum Willoughby has previously co-written cookbooks with colorful titles such as "License to Grill" and "How to Cook Meat," with chef Chris Schlesinger...
...shows this week, but you're not getting tickets this late: Paul Simon (Dec. 1-3) and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones (Dec. 6-10). Harvard alum-band Seventeen turn up at Bill's Bar on Dec. 7. Lots of female performers in town too: Rickie Lee Jones on Dec. 6, Dido and the Bangles on Dec. 7 and Melissa Ferrick on Dec. 8. And in the Where-are-they-now? category, Richard Marx pops up, incongruously at the Paradise, on Dec. 3. Wherever you go... whatever you do... I will be right here waiting...
...Hell Happened to Me?) 3) I think that the actor-comedian's last three movies The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, and Big Daddy sucked. With that in mind, one would probably conjecture that I wouldn't like Little Nicky, Sandler's latest sure-fire box office behemoth. The SNL alum indeed performs the 83-minute-long film with an annoying, muffled speech impediment. And yes, recently Sandler's movies have become increasingly obnoxious and mainstream. Top it all off with a dull tag line-If Your Mom was an Angel and Your Father was the Devil You'd Be Messed...