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...what's the secret to getting in off the waitlist? Most colleges require students to decide where they want to go by May 1, after which they will re-evaluate the kids they've kept on hold. Given the odds, those who choose to remain on a waitlist should still accept an offer from--and, yes, probably pay a nonrefundable deposit to--another school, lest they have nowhere to attend in the fall. Some waitlisted students use the time to take action. Sam Davison, a senior at Highland Park High School in Texas, was waitlisted at his first choice, Vanderbilt...
...TIME give up the charade and change the name of the magazine to Obama Weekly. The timing and tone of your cover story on Obama's mother made your April 21 issue look more like a campaign p.r. piece than legitimate news story. Something tells me I shouldn't hold my breath waiting for soft-focus, warm-and-fuzzy cover stories about the mothers of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Katherine Whan, DECATUR...
...listen to hip-hop and then you go do these horrible things to women,’” Sharpley-Whiting says. The author of “Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women,” Sharpley-Whiting argues that American culture in general is over-sexualized...
...It’s always an extraordinarily important thing for any large resource center to get a hold of the literary remains of anybody of that stature,” said Robert Scanlan, professor of English and Mailer’s acquaintance in the early 1970s...
...anger to the polls,” were meant to encourage voter turnout and condemn leaders like Mugabe and President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa. Yet panelist Tawanda Mutasah, the executive director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, said that he believed that Muagabe has continued to hold on to power in two ways: “one leg has been domestic oppression, and the other leg on which he stands is his pretense at African legitimation.” Chingono posed the question of the feasibility of pressuring Mugabe out of power. Andrew Meldrum, an American reporter...