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...case of sibling admissions, this “feather in the scale” is even lighter. Lewis suggests that, for some admissions committee members, sibling status is a “tiebreaker” whereas for others it has no influence. Although the committee has not recorded statistics regarding sibling admissions, she surmises that their acceptance rate is higher than average, primarily because the siblings “tend to be pretty well self-selected as candidates.” Lewis warns that the “tip” is only considered when two applicants are otherwise indistinguishable...
John Hurt, (4) who showed the lighter side of the Lord in Mel Brooks' 1981 History of the World: Part I. Hurt was also in The Osterman Weekend with...
...Anything you buy from Store 23 will only function for 23 hours a day at best." One night, when Hartnett and a few friends attempted to engage in some illicit activity involving tobacco of a green hue, he desperately tried to light up with a newly-purchased Store 23 lighter. "Despite our best efforts it would just spark and spark but give no chronic flame!" Hartnett laments. Apparently, the lighter conked out at approximately the same time that Store 24 transforms into Store 23. The next day the lighter functioned perfectly. "Coincidence? We think not," say Willison and Hartnett...
...from scratch with a simpler operating system? Never. "Two words: Windows survives," says senior strategist Craig Mundie. The company expects us to continue buying PCs alongside our handy little mobile Net appliances. But it's also throwing buckets of money at research to make existing versions of Windows better, lighter and cheaper. Meanwhile, its hardware partners are planning a stream of funky little gadgets to seed with Microsoft's DNA. If Mundie has his way, "powered by Windows" will become the selling point for the '00s that "Intel inside...
...both No Doubt and Korn. The glorification of alternative rock assisted by a fatal self-inflicted bullet wound to Kurt Cobain sent record companies, radio stations, and teenagers into an alterna-frenzy. Perfect timing landed both bands with a series of chart-topping singles. No Doubt titillated the lighter souls with "Just a Girl," "Spider Web" and "Don't Speak," while Korn captured the darker souls with "Blind," "Shoots and Ladders," and "Clown." Gwen Stefani excited, Jonathan Davis incited and new modern rock heroes were born...