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...felt like I was on my own for choosing most of my classes, and I had to ferret out other students and sometimes past TFs to swap experiences with," said Elisa K. Cheng '99, a peer counselor for psychology concentrators...
...more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants" not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...
...Richard Snee, the 40-member Revels Chorus, a merry company of Music Hall "artistes," the Pudding Lane Waits, the Dingley Dell Dancers, a parlor orchestra, the Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble, The Pinewoods Morris Meri and the Rose Galliard Northwest Morris, the Pearly King and Queen, and a fake ferret. Do you know what that means? Again, the press release speaks through me. Basically there are a lot of people on stage, no one is particularly charming or memorable, they do ridiculous things for adults under uninspired direction and the audience laps it up. They sing competently, okay, even well...
When it comes to diversification, many mutual-fund investors fool themselves. Funds with very different names and objectives often hold the same stocks. Now, thanks to a new software program called Overlap ($150 a year; 800-683-7527), fund fanatics can ferret out duplication. Type in any two funds, and the program shows what percentage of stocks they hold in common and their overlap in various sectors like technology...
Which is why I am at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Today I will undergo an all-day physical examination designed to ferret out the body's early warning signs, nascent failings and pending catastrophes. Dozens of similar executive health programs have sprung up around the country, prompted by the proliferation of HMOs, which generally restrict physicals to bare-bones essentials, and by a rapidly aging population in need of greater care. The cost of these thorough examinations can run high--from $1,200 to $2,500--and is generally not reimbursable by insurance companies. Rather, employers often insist that their...