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...News, “New College Ranking Places Harvard Fifth”), the Atlantic Monthly is not entering the “club” of magazine that rank colleges. Several of the articles in our November, 2003, “survey” of college admissions explain what’s wrong with the ranking process. In order to demonstrate the fallibility of rankings, without being just theoretical, we constructed a potemkin ranking which we then deconstructed. This was not meant, and cannot reasonably be read, as an attempt to say which college is better than which other...
...border. "We honed our skills in rollouts in other countries," says Wolverton, "places that were less litigious, where there was less red tape." To help kick North America into gear, he gives store employees who meet monthly sales targets a bonus that sometimes matches their salaries, which may explain the soap licker in San Francisco...
...exaggeration.” In the British Elle recently, she described her 2003 relapse into brunette-hood in classic Britneyspeak: “I was having a huge brain fart when I did the dark hair.” A huge brain fart, indeed. Britney, let me explain something: your career hasn’t stayed afloat on the strength of your voice or the profundity of your lyrics (see “Sometimes”). You’re still relevant because your “Satisfaction” striptease is forever in my Shared Folder and fantasy file...
...roots, everyone is baffled to learn, are in some Shtetls on the Russian-Polish border. I want to explain that my soul has roots in the poetry that’s created here. But I keep my mouth shut, having concluded that behavior considered normal amongst devotees of Phil Fisher’s English 165: “Joyce, Modernism and Aestheticism” class is considered downright loony by everyone else...
...It’s a very different branch of Harvards,” he says, going on to explain that it has nothing really to do with the Puritanical Harvards at all. “My parents came form Iceland. Our family name is rather difficult to pronounce,” he says, attempting to phonetically spell the Icelandic Heidman (his best attempt: hayth-man). Young John Heidman was given the middle name Harvard by his mother, who was partial to the Harvard training aircraft that the Canadian military flew at noisy intervals over their Winnipeg home. But when...