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...media has begun to unwittingly spread the President's foolishness rather than combat it. This frightens me far more than the revelation itself, for it is as if noone cares that the leader of the country believed this ridiculous stuff. Nobody asks what this says about the kinds of criteria Reagan is willing to use in his everyday--or even world shaking--decisions. If we begin by accepting astrology as an innocuous eccentricity, we will be more likely to accept a government run on ignorance, and give "equal time" for wrong and right...
...seeking diverse student bodies. A third factor is what admissions people call the scalp takers: top students who sit on a fistful of acceptances, hogging places that might have been offered to someone else. And in a kind of ripple effect from the leading schools, both the admissions criteria and the intensity of the marketing hype have gone up at second- and third-tier schools, so that they are indeed no longer safe second choices...
...League's influence on academics has also caused problems for some coaches. Admissions criteria for student-athletes have become higher, affecting the availability of players...
...process sometimes starts before the story. John Kolesar, now managing editor of the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J., recalls sitting on a committee at the Bergen Record to draw up a list of criteria for selecting projects that could win a Pulitzer. The Miami Herald a few years ago dispatched an editor to Manhattan to check out winning entries and how they were packaged. The choice of a hot subject can be helpful; AIDS and TV evangelists were popular this year. Prizemanship strategies have even built up a genre of newspaper writing: the exhaustive multi-part investigation...
...woman as unlikely because Bush is too cautious. Says one: "George Bush will be looking for a George Bush." In other words, a Vice President who is quiet, competent and loyal to a fault. Bush's advisers say he leans toward elected officials. Among those who would meet his criteria...