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...know, the ones who do everything right. They take honors classes, study hard enough to be in the top 10 percent of their class, get solid 1350s on their SATs, play sports, participate in student government, do community service (sometimes even when it's not required). They're earnest, they're hardworking, they're determined. They do everything right and most of them don't have a chance of getting in. . .unless they discover a protein or publish a novel, they are going to look a lot like all of the other qualified applicants." Instead, Toor says, admissions officers...
...people with Parkinson's disease, who might benefit from the research. For Bush, the past few weeks provided a supreme opportunity. For a man who has sometimes seemed to lack the gravitas that the presidency demands, the stem-cell debate offered the chance to show that he was thoughtful, earnest, tireless--in short, worthy of holding the title of President of the United States. Bush's prolonged rumination about the right thing to do was not just a time for soul searching. It was a way of signaling that he could engage issues that mattered at a level commensurate with...
...education school - too many hours, too much money to commit to a career I wasn?t sure I wanted long-term. So I applied to my high school alma mater, a private day school in New Jersey. During the day of interviews my standard line, so earnest, so arrogant, was, "I want to give something back." It took the head of the upper school to call my bluff: "If you only stay a year or two," he asked, "do you really think you?ll be giving more to the school than you?ll be getting in return...
...When the slowdown hit in earnest last November and turned all the bulls to bears, bond traders got optimistic about the one thing that warms their hearts - the long-term inflation picture. Figuring the value of lent money would hold up nicely, they bid down the interest rates on the 10- and 30-year Treasury notes...
...beginning of the summer, Clinton seemed to have found her footing on Capitol Hill. She started fund-raising in earnest for other Democrats, and began inching into the national spotlight again. Just before the Senate adjourned for summer recess, Clinton, a member of the Commerce Committee, led a successful challenge of President Bush?s pick to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Defeating the nomination of Mary Sheila Gall was, in effect, Clinton?s first real bid for national press...