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Ultimately, it's the personal ties that distinguish this shop from others. No generic have-a-nice-day's here. Catie Zedros, Steven's hyperkinetic mother, paused for a moment to reflect on her family's special relationship with the Harvard student body. "When they come in over and over for a long time, you can't help but get to know them. A lot of them end up calling me `mom,"' she said, laughing. "But that's what's really rewarding. We help them, and they help us. We'll have someone call from the Yard one minute before...
First, they incorrectly assume that academic standards alone would suffice to distinguish between the eligible and the unqualified. The truth is that most applicants to Harvard are "qualified" for admission. But even if Harvard had a policy of accepting only valedictorians, it would still have to reject a number of applicants--and Mark Stonecypher would not even be eligible for consideration...
...fused liver and a shared heart. As they cuddled the girls, Reitha, 24, and Ken, 26, knew that they would not see Amy, "the ornery one," alive again. Her fingernails had been left bare while her sister's had been painted pink by nurses to help doctors easily distinguish the girls. For surgeons would soon try to save Angela by sacrificing Amy. Even Angela had only the slimmest chance -- less than 1% -- to survive for more than a few weeks. Still, as Ken had plaintively asked one doctor, "people win the lottery every week...
What seemed to distinguish the Schama tenure battle from others in the recent past is that Schama, not Papaioannou, seemed to be the spouse necessitating heavy recruiting...
Conduct Unbecoming has the heft and urgency of a journalistic milestone. But the book's lack of thoughtful underpinning, its failure to distinguish between homophobia and the military's more practical concerns, threatens to turn it into a doorstop...