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Luckily, item 9 offered an escape hatch. You can tell Law School Admissions Services, the Pennsylvania firm that administers the LSAT, to leave your ethnic description out of score reports. This meant, I thought, that I could help LSAS's statisticians get an accurate picture of the law school applicant pool without signing up for special consideration that I don't deserve. My negative answer to 14C, which asks, "Would you describe yourself as someone who comes from a low-income family?" should have eliminated me from such consideration altogether...

Author: By Dante E. A. ramos, | Title: Confessions of an Affirmative Action Maybe | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...packets came anyway. James M. Vaseleck, deputy corporate counsel for Law Services, told me that schools use his firm's database--which includes ethnic descriptions even of those students who, by using the escape hatch, ask that their ethnic descriptions not be used--to pick out "targeted pools." The only real way to keep your ethnicity out of the admissions process is to skip item...

Author: By Dante E. A. ramos, | Title: Confessions of an Affirmative Action Maybe | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...same tale: this isn't Rashomon, it's Trashomon. NBC, first with the most, painted Fisher's version in bold strokes, with no whitewash, and Noelle Parker was a fine Amy. ABC had the hottest sex, courtesy of a sulky, smoldering Drew Barrymore. Poor CBS had to hatch a Fatal Attraction plot without the sex, since Joey has never admitted to doing anything interesting. But the real subject of the Amy-thon was the Long Island accent and attitude -- Brooklyn with flashier threads. Try this at school, kids: "Din I awrea'y tell you? You have sex wit chooah body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trashomon | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

Those raised for Thanksgiving hatch in June, Owen says...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: BEHIND THE SCENES OF THANKSGIVING | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Opening act Luna2 tailored their act for the Paradise crowd--the set they played was less poppy than their recent appearance at the Hatch Shell opening for They Might Be Giants. Their live performance of WFNX favorite "Anesthesia" and cover of Beat Happening's "Indian Summer" were professional, but uninspiring. There is an unshakable sense that Luna2 has yet to find a sound of their...

Author: By Bryan Lavietes, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Paradise Crowd Looks for Oblivion With the Trees | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

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