Word: counselors
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Nicole Richie's planned turn as camp counselor on The Simple Life (helping kids with, among other things, weight loss) got celebrity blog THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP musing that Heather Mills could soon be "showing poor women how to marry for money." That's unfair: it's more like Godzilla teaching urban planning. SCORE...
...Hence the need for what Lloyd Thacker, a former college guidance counselor and admissions officer, calls "benevolent collusion." Thacker, who started a nonprofit in 2004 with the cat-herding goal of returning sanity to the admissions process, is pushing the current letter-writing campaign with the fervor of an evangelist. And his flock of concerned college presidents gained a few more members after a recent publicity flap. U.S. News was revealed to have considered assigning in its next rankings an arbitrary SAT score to Sarah Lawrence College because the school no longer collects applicants' scores...
...Alberto Gonzales, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, political shaman Karl Rove--all rose from the tight web of Texas loyalists who owe their careers to George W. Bush and followed him to Washington in 2001. Bush even chose a member of his Texas tribe who wasn't implicated, counselor Dan Bartlett, for the task of defending those who were. Said Bartlett of the firings: "All the decisions ... were proper decisions...
Timur Söylemez, a counselor at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, wrote in an e-mailed statement before Akçam’s speech that the allegations of genocide “have never been historically or legally substantiated beyond reasonable doubt...
...former Myers Park counselor, who asked not to be identified, says that during Anderson's three-year tenure at the school, it was an open secret that underperforming and/or problem students were pressured to leave or told they could not return after disciplinary suspensions. "We all saw the push-out going on," she recalls. "It was almost a joke. In front of the faculty of 150, Anderson would say 'get your attendances in. If the students have excessive absences, we can get rid of them and send them to the school of far, far away.'" The school...