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...confidence in the value of high school transcripts eroded, U.C. finally started requiring SAT scores from all applicants. From that point, the test grew into a national juggernaut. Within a matter of years, as college attendance skyrocketed, many admissions offices were relying heavily on the standardized SAT scores to help winnow piles of applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should SATs Matter? | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Buoyed by the successful comedy career of Rick Rockwell, the VJ stylings of Eric Nies and the just-waiting-to-juggernaut acting career of Survivor Colleen Haskell, MANDY LAUDERDALE, redheaded devil woman and breakout star of Temptation Island, is fielding offers to capitalize on her fame. So far, she's been surprisingly fastidious. She told Howard Stern that she turned down a $1.5 million Playboy offer to pose nude, though a Playboy representative said the figure was much lower. The tragic loss to greasy-palmed men is a victory for the arts, as Lauderdale plans to focus on a singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

This year, the band also welcomed new members bass guitarist Jesse Andrews '04 and assistant vocalist Malaika Butoyi '04; they incorporated them seamlessly into their funk juggernaut. Butoyi's rising and falling soulful vocals brought new depth to the band's voice. She and the other lead played off each other and the audience very well. Band cofounder Alex Scammon '01 says the band's goal is "to be irresistably groovy. To take grooviness over the top with overpowering horns and in your face attitude...

Author: By Andrew D. Goulet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Project Health Gets its Groove On: FinkFankFunk at Loker Commons | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...confidence in the value of high school transcripts eroded, U.C. finally started requiring SAT scores from all applicants. From that point, the test grew into a national juggernaut. Within a matter of years, as college attendance skyrocketed, many admissions offices were relying heavily on the standardized SAT scores to help winnow piles of applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should SATs Matter? | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...Week 5 of "Survivor 2," the main story lines were the conflicts. The reward challenge for blankets, personal hygiene supplies and spices (spices?) was won by the juggernaut Kucha tribe ("Thank God we won the reward challenge so we can bathe Kimmi," said Mike.) But a threatened "meltdown by the Colbster" was thankfully avoided when Ogakor outraced Kucha in the rats-in-a-maze immunity challenge. Not a thrilling watch, that. (I still say they should have left behind somebody at each medal, and called them all in, in proper order. But then again, viewers had the aerial camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kimmi Chopped — and What About That Chopper? | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

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