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...admissions policy, we would take issue with some of its nuances. For example, on a 150-point scale, blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans receive a 20-point increase. A perspicacious essay, outstanding leadership skills or noteworthy personal achievement receives a relatively paltry 3 points, but a perfect GPA will earn one up to 80 points. In addition, whites and Asians of economic disadvantage receive 20 points, as do scholarship athletes. A Michigan resident garners 10 points, the child of an alumnus receives 4, and a perfect score on the SAT wins one 12 points...
...Salary George W. Bush will earn as President, twice the amount earned by Bill Clinton...
...auto-parts company in Osaka until earlier this year. The slender six-footer with Chiclet teeth came to Tokyo with dreams of singing and acting. After auditioning for a role in a movie about male hosts, he decided he could be one himself. Though top hosts can earn well into six figures, Tanaka is happy with $3,000 a month and an audition-friendly schedule. "It's ideal, except for one thing," he says. "I can't tell my parents...
...such obsessiveness emerge images of seemingly effortless beauty. Zhang shows us the unedited six-and-a-half-minute sequence from the Mongolian shoot, a scene so breathtaking it will no doubt earn a place in the cinematic pantheon. Dazzling in red costumes against a pale yellow sun, the two women ballet rather than battle it out, leaping over the treetops and chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto...
WHAT ATHLETES EARN...