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...students I met had very different ambitions. One said that journalism was just a beginning: "My real ambition is to write like Hemingway." He showed me a folder full of stories and poems he had written. Another wanted to be an art critic. The third wanted to write "against bureaucracy...
...seems an irresistible bargain. The folder that arrives in the mail offers to sell a $41.50 transistor radio for only $12.50, or perhaps a blender worth $49.50 for only $19.50. The notice is on official-looking paper of the kind that is usually sent out by claims adjusting firms assigned to liquidate the stock of a bankrupt company at distress prices. Every week more than a million similar notices, offering everything from Bibles to binoculars, go into mailboxes across the U.S.-and every week thousands of people bite at the bait...
...theme and variegate his texture, he abruptly interjects a two-minute "quote" from another movie and later for the same reasons rabbets in some paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe. To check and jumble the flow of the story, he chops it into twelve curt chapters, each labeled like a folder in a file...
Although the Committee must pass on each applicant individually, much of the actual evaluating of candidates is done beforehand by the regular admissions staff. Each folder is read by three different staff members, and each candidate receives a numerical rating from one (high) to nine (low) in such categories as academic potential, extracurricular activities, and the recommendations of high school principals and teachers. These evaluations are then combined in an overall numerical rating which indicates the applicant's chances for admission...
Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and longtime foe of budget deficits, pushed a bulging manila folder toward a visitor. "Now here are the letters about the tax cut from just one mail," said Byrd. "There are 60 of them there, and not one that...