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Actually, a clone or two might have brightened up Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (Knopf; 322 pages). On the first page, a bully comes after the 7-year-old Jesus. "I felt the power go out of me as I shouted: 'You'll never get where you're going.'" The bully falls down dead. Later, Jesus resurrects the bully, having made his point...
STICKYBRAIN In addition to storing notes and research like a digital filing cabinet, this Mac-only program lets you highlight something on a Web page, such as a phone number or an online discount, and export it into a note for easy access later. Have a sudden thought? Create a new note with a quick keystroke. Need to look something up in your notes? StickyBrain searches speedily for any word...
...caused the death this month of Ghazi Kenaan, the Interior Minister who was Syria's intelligence chief in Lebanon from 1982 to 2002. The government declared that Kenaan, in despair over media reports about his interrogation by the U.N. investigators, had committed suicide at his desk. But Mehlis' 54-page report, released nine days after Kenaan's death, made only brief mention of the dead man--fueling speculation that Kenaan was coerced to take his own life or was murdered, either to eliminate a potential Alawite challenger to Assad's rule or to prevent him from further assisting...
...Common Application is a standard form used by 225 selective colleges and universities in the United States, including Harvard. On its first page, right underneath the space for applicants’ names and ages, is a boxed-off set of questions that the form describes as strictly optional. They are questions that concern applicants’ places of birth, their mother tongues, and, most notably, their ethnic groups: pigeonholes that allow colleges to select their entering classes with an eye to diversity and minority representation...
...First, eliminate the race/ethnicity box at the bottom of the first page of the Common Application. Even though it’s presently optional, the inclusion of such a raw barometer of an applicant’s background on the application implicitly emphasizes those of his or her characteristics that are least important to creating a diverse student body, in the grand scheme of things. It isn’t enough for colleges to claim that applicants’ responses comprise “just another piece of information”; so long as universities proudly publish their minority matriculation...