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...inordinate success with “b” depends mainly on our own skills. We are the ones who scored 1600 on our SATs or mastered the oboe underwater. We ascribe our progress towards the United States Congress or the presidency of Citigroup as a reflection of our merit; we view our achievements as a statement that we belong among our forefathers, such as John F. Kennedy ’40, John Updike ’54, or Senator Al Gore ’69. But it is exactly that tradition of success that should limit our hubristic interpretation...
...unsure how faculty feel about special admissions consideration for their children. “I think a lot of faculty don’t think their children should get special consideration,” Lewis says. “I think a lot of faculty are interested in merit-based admissions.” Jacobsen also says he does not think faculty can expect their children to gain special admissions consideration, but he does call tuition relief a “serious incentive” and “symbolic” because other universities provide the benefit...
...group in “The Dream Scene” gave a mostly clean performance in this difficult Marius Petipa-based choreography by Rudolf Nureyev. Both soloists, Jennifer S. Love ’09 and Quadrat, were impressive—complementing each other with grace and technical merit. In the “Kitri Variation,” Kate M. Funderburk ’07 gave an impressive performance that left the audience yearning for more—particularly for more of her turns. The evening concluded with a resonating final piece, Michael Banigan?...
...fact that the atrocities happened on a particular day of the week is enough to merit a ban, why stop there...
...interesting to ponder how much you've retained of what you learned at school. Those who've forgotten umpteen mathematical formulas and the periodic table are generally none the worse for it. Though there's much to be said for a broad education, there's also merit in the view that children should be free to explore what interests them. Mujahidah Flint's daughter Tahirrah reads encyclopedias and dictionaries for fun. "I don't like dumb, funny books," she says. "I like the classics . . . Dickens, Kipling." At 10, she wrote her first book; her latest follows a troubled teen whose...