Word: delling
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...company's celebration of American culture is totally in synch with the Chinese as they hurtle into a chaotic, freer time. In July, at a Nike three-on-three competition in the capital, a Chinese DJ named Jo Eli played songs like I'll Be Damned off his Dell computer. "Nike says play hip-hop because that's what blacks listen to," he says. "The government doesn't exactly promote these things. But we can all expose ourselves to something new." That sounds pretty close to a Chinese translation of "Just Do It." --With reporting by Daren Fonda/ Beaverton...
...called another time, brimming with excitement, to tell me that she had just unscrewed the back of Grandma’s computer and rearranged a cable or two—and now it was up and running again. She said the Dell technician gave wonderful instructions, and wasn’t I proud...
...later, College Matters has expanded tremendously. This fall, it published a book. The College Matters Guide to Getting into the Elite College of Your Dreams is a compilation of 14 specialized chapters written by 15 college students from various schools across the country, including four from Harvard. Melissa L. Dell ’05, a senior in Winthrop house and the managing editor of the book, wrote the Standardized Test chapter with an eye for basic facts: “In high school, my guidance counselor thought the SAT was out of 3,600 points...
When probed on why this manifesto is different from the countless others that claim to break the code of college admissions, Dell points to “the fact that we had input from so many people. We had the viewpoints of 15 very different students...
...Only 3 percent of the students at top universities come from the bottom income tile. The inequities are enormous,” says Dell...