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...Much of this is a simple matter of math - more and more kids are applying for a set number of spots. But as Rachel Toor, a former admissions office at Duke University, explains in her newly published tell-all, "Admissions Confidential," colleges like Duke are now casting about for a different breed of student. For years, the conventional wisdom has held that admissions committees rewarded all-around applicants (hence the whole generation of parents who've nourished their children on a steady diet of piano lessons, soccer games and pottery classes from birth). Today, writes Toor, "most of the students...
...Toor and her colleagues go to bat for students they dub "mini-mes." Toor herself is a leftist marathoner who falls for socially conscious students who write their essays about running. She also champions a young woman whose answer to the Why Duke? essay begins "because it isn't Yale." (Toor, a Yale alum, writes of her own college years: "While I was there I never used the words 'Yale' and 'happy' in the same sentence.") "I was personally most turned off," she confides of her first year on the job, "by the Junior Statesmen of America and by kids...
...With Ray Charles" -and the conclusion of his career segue from rhythm to rock. But he was just getting started. His really big band LP, "The Genius of Ray Charles" (with arrangements by Ralph Burns and the young Quincy Jones), teamed him with veterans of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington outfits, and he proved he could play with the big boys, winning their respect after initial skepticism. It also showed he could lay his easy, tortured vocal style on such chestnuts as Irving Berlin?s "Alexander?s Ragtime Band" and the Arlen-Mercer "Come Rain or Come Shine." Then...
...huge number of academic trials and the accompanying paperwork, the FDA had got into the habit of quietly discouraging universities from applying for approval, assuming that safety issues could be dealt with by the universities. Then, in 1999, the feds abruptly cracked down, stopping human research at Duke University Medical Center. One infraction they cited: the improper recording of minutes of a meeting. Frustrated critics say what is needed is a regulatory middle ground...
...1970s. Globalization, he said, had a dual nature: subordinating men while also "providing them with the opportunity to rebel against capitalism." In fact, you don't have to endorse Empire's authors' broadly Marxist perspective (I don't) to find the book fascinating. For Hardt, a professor at Duke University, the modern world is characterized by the absence of a power center. The U.S. may be mightier than any other nation, but with economic and political resources widely distributed, it cannot always call the shots--ask Jack Welch. That much has been said before; but in a new departure, Hardt...