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...minute drive from her home. She likes to go late at night, after Sam is asleep, for some solitude among the bargains. But on this Saturday morning she's there by 11, filling her cart with four winter shirts for her son, four ladies' shirts, baby wipes and formula, paper towels, a flea comb for her two cats, 136 diapers, and a box of graham crackers to occupy Sam, who's strapped happily into the front of the cart. The total comes to $146.13. "I thought," she says as she writes the check, "that it would be more...
...Ironically, like most highly-selective schools, we are best prepared to deal with change, because they are not formula-driven," Browning says. "We include a couple of essay questions designed to get at special experiences and talents...
...hard to put a finger on it because it's not as though he has some formula for what he does, he's just a very charming guy and stays that way before a class of 400," says Samuel J. Klein...
According to Tracy Kiley of the Princeton Review, many schools use a formula of LSAT scores and grades, called an index, to rank applicants, with the test often counting for up to 60 percent of the index...
Ultimately, since the children alone do not provide enough compelling material, we look to the adults, but they remain stuck in a formula of hemming and hawing over the kids, whether for or against their existence. A late outburst by Ruth about her friends' disrespect of her seems almost an afterthought, and the wrap-up scene, new baby included and old babies rejuvenated, is played with such a smooth resolution, such a return to levity, that we feel vaguely cheated...