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...least in the past couple of years there has been a big movement away from taking students from the traditional feeder schools," said Rebecca L. Garrison '99, who attended Phillips Exeter Academy. "It's a good thing because it's probably giving students from public schools more opportunity, but it's also probably denying quality kids from prep schools just because they're from prep schools...
...necessarily think admissions gives us special benefits except that the name of the school turns their head a bit in the beginning," Garrison says of Exeter...
...SUPPOSE IT'S ALMOST AS NOBLE TO LIVE in Minnesota as it is to live in Wisconsin [ESSAY, Nov. 27]. Every word of Garrison Keillor's Thanksgiving offering was a treasure. What a relief to be reminded that the hype can only get to you if you let it. I will pay attention and be joyful to the funny, genuine parts of life that serve as reminders of what is right in front of me--the beauty of the accepted moment. Thank you, Garrison, for conveying the message of a holiday not gone astray. COLLEEN ALLGOOD Rhinelander, Wisconsin...
...OUTRAGED AT YOUR PRINTING OF Keillor's piece on Thanksgiving. I almost choked to death while eating my jellied cranberry sauce. Garrison cooked a delightful stuffing of philosophical musings, corn-pone anecdotes and downright slapstick jokes. A milestone hoot. PAT STEPHENSON Prairie Village, Kansas
...BETTER COME HOME, by Garrison Keillor, with paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Viking; $15.99), presents the sage of Lake Wobegon in bardic mode, with a talking blues for cat owners. Puff disdains the low-rent cat food her master serves and hightails it for the big city. Her master pleads, "Come home, old Puff, come home to us,/ There's a lot of new benefits I'd like to discuss." No dice. "I saw her six months later in a cat magazine./ She was the Number One TV cat-food queen/...I could tell it was Puff even...