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...straight As, great boards, nice kid. Got rejected at his top three choices, wait-listed at two more. Who gets into Yale these days anyway? Maybe they should have sent him to Mali for the summer to dig wells, fight malaria, give him something to write about in his essay...
...down by rocks, tangible evidence of an honor code so entrenched that if a dollar falls on campus soil, it stays there until the owner claims it. Kenyon in Ohio includes a paragraph in its acceptance letter that is entirely personal to the particular student: good job on the essay, nice season in basketball. The big schools can't do that--"and it's making a difference," says Sharon Merrow Cuseo, dean at Los Angeles' Harvard-Westlake Academy. "I think of my students as cynical consumers of college propaganda, but they love that personal touch. They come...
...Smiling Through Surgery Re Michael Kinsley's essay written in anticipation of brain surgery [July 24]: I again see the man I frequently admired on the television program Crossfire, someone with whom I disagreed politically but who was analytical and fair. I think that better understanding our frailty helps us keep a balanced perspective. I hope that he continues along that path. As a Republican, I would welcome the old Kinsley back. Bill Kistulinec Warren, New Jersey...
...region. Bombing people into democracy is the epitome of hypocrisy and has led the U.S. down a disastrous road before. A just and fair solution that protects the interests of all is the only way to a sustainable peace. Fawaz Shalan Amman Smiling Through Surgery Re Michael Kinsley's essay written in anticipation of brain surgery [July 24]: I again see the man I frequently admired on the television program Crossfire, someone with whom I disagreed politically but who was analytical and fair. I think that better understanding our frailty helps us keep a balanced perspective. I hope he continues...
Barbara Ehrenreich's Essay about boys goofing off at college while girls are overachieving was nothing more than the flip side of the stories during the 1950s and '60s that claimed women went to college only to find husbands [July 31]. I didn't care to be stereotyped that way back then, and as the mother of 18-year-old twin sons who are honor students, eagle scouts, Young Democrats and all-around solid citizens, I deeply resent such a demeaning picture of the current crop of young men. Surely there are also plenty of unfocused, lazy, binge-drinking young...