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...Cornell and Bowdoin, admissions readers typically send art slides and music tapes out to department heads to get an expert appraisal. Those rare applicants who get a ringing endorsement are usually instant hits back in the committee room. That was the case for one student's trumpet performance, which received the top rating from Cornell's music department. But, noted reader Ken Gabard, "it's only 1 in 100 who gets this kind of reception...
...point. The real battle tonight was between Al Gore and the parody of Al Gore on "Saturday Night Live" last weekend. Gore certainly made the SNL Gore disappear last night, but he may have made himself disappear in the process. And sure enough, this time around, he lost the instant audience polls and the pundit consensus after the debate. Given the aftermath of the debate he "won," of course, that may have been precisely the strategy. The question, to be fought out in the following days of on-air punditry and polling: can Al Gore win for losing...
...know myself and my schedule well enough to imagine that teacher becoming my own personal Greek god of guilt. So I turn to that famous refuge of the half-assed hobbyist: the Learning Annex, New York City branch. I sign up for a three-hour, $39 course called "Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People." It's taught by Martin Moser, a sprightly ragtime fanatic. The course requires only that students be able to read music in the treble clef and be able to point to those notes on a piano keyboard. I'm there...
...when I asked my husband (by instant message) what was going through his mind when he tore down my swag, it just reopened old wounds...
...INSTANT KARMA...