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...country," Francisco says. "We know that's not going to happen overnight. "We have a lot to prove this year. It's not about last year, or years past. We have a lot to prove about our team this year. We are a hard working team with a blue-collar work ethic, and we've got some talent...

Author: By Michael C. Sabala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Heads to Frisco for Scoring Load | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

Schools are also taken with good students from families with little education or money. At Bowdoin, this is known as an "NC/BC" case, for no college/blue collar; at Rice, it's an application with "overcome" factors. At Cornell, admissions readers were initially not too impressed by a student with good test scores but whose grades were all over the map. Then a reader noticed that she came from a family with no higher education and worked up to 40 hours a week as a cashier. But it was her essay that really swayed the committee, as she described being derisively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside College Admissions | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...played by Mark Wahlberg would not seem to be short on glamour: his mother is Ellen Burstyn; his aunt is Faye Dunaway; the girl he left behind is Charlize Theron. But he and the movie do lack drama. This all-star study in blue-collar venality (remember Cop Land?) is both speech- and sight-impaired: the dialogue is all mumbles and whispers; the palette dabbles in blacks and dark browns. The film is so muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Yards | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

More white-collar jobs seem to have translated into lower political participation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Voters Are Becoming Apathetic | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

...Schools are also taken with good students from families with little education or money. At Bowdoin, this is known as an "NC/BC" case, for no college/blue collar; at Rice, it's an application with "overcome" factors. At Cornell, admissions readers were initially not too impressed by a student with good test scores but whose grades were all over the map. Then one reader noticed that she came from a family with no higher education and worked up to 40 hours a week as a cashier. But it was her essay that really swayed the committee, as she described being derisively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In or Out: Inside College Admissions | 10/15/2000 | See Source »

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