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HOST The somber camp counselor Jeff Probst SETTING Rat-infested island near Borneo ELIMINATED CONTESTANT Sonja Christopher, 62, voted off the island for being "weakest link" VIEWERS TUNED IN To see if anyone...
Barry Miller, who as a teacher and career counselor at Pace University in New York City studies the cost to corporate productivity of broken families, says some employers are beginning to consider "work-life balance." Translation: it has dawned on them that working you to death may hurt their profits. "It costs us 150% of an annual salary to replace an employee in terms of retraining a new person, the turbulence it causes in a unit and the impact on our client," says Denny Marcel, associate director of the burnout-prevention unit at Ernst & Young. Miller calls the accounting firm...
Anna Fudacz, whose Harvard interview four years ago was "spoiled" by a curmudgeonly alum, earned departmental honors in economics at Stanford, reveled in Silicon Valley and plans to work at Intel next year. Mira Lew, who had hired a professional college counselor to help her win the admissions game, became a history major at Columbia--and has since landed a job at Marvel Comics. Parham Yashar also moved on quickly from his Harvard rejection. He will be graduating Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA a week from Saturday, then off to Northwestern Medical School...
Susan Kim, a counselor at Van Nuys, says Mira's parents were also "really, really enthusiastic about higher education, about an Ivy League education." While her older sister chose Berkeley, Mira picked Columbia and took courses like "The American Radical Tradition" with famed U.S. historian and author Eric Foner...
...Nuys High counselor Susan Kim says Turre was not the only standout student in her class, but she certainly deserved her acceptance. "She has done so much more than can be expected of one person," Kim says. Yet as a Korean-American, Kim worries that "you really have to be a superboy or girl as an Asian applicant to be accepted." And with Harvard's record 16,500-plus rejections this year--including all of Van Nuys High's applicants--getting into Harvard isn't any easier, Kim fears. From the counseling office at Van Nuys, she says...