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...tour guide, let's call her Julie, met us on the steps of Byerly Hall. About 10 students and an equal number of parents had already arrived. The first stop was Radcliffe Yard. After a friendly introduction, we learned about the history of Radcliffe, and how it had been integrated with Harvard in the past 50 years. The first question was asked by a parent. She wanted to know, much to the visible disappointment of her daughter, how important SAT scores are in the admissions process. "Well" said Julie, "SATs are certainly important, but don't worry about them...
Boosted by its TV brand name and backed by parent Walt Disney Co., ESPN is guaranteeing advertisers an initial circulation of 350,000 and hopes to reach 2 million in five years, vs. SI's 3.15 million. Not that anyone is keeping score yet. The goal isn't to grab SI readers, says ESPN editor in chief John Papenek: "We're thinking about all those people who don't read a sports magazine." SI has added pictures and short news items up front, but managing editor Bill Colson says he "would have done it regardless of ESPN's appearance...
...Apparently not. Dogged by a multistate task force that accuses it of bilking the elderly, American Family Publishers (partly owned by a subsidiary of Time-Warner Inc., parent company of TIME Daily) has agreed to stop telling consumers they are "winners" unless they really are -- and to make it clearer that no purchase is needed to enter the sweepstakes...
...long-term partners when she fell in love with someone else was unpleasant, to say the least: it's tacky by any standards to start dating your lover's nurse while she's laid up in the hospital. Hall was also a possessive and controlling lover, a consistently neglectful parent to Una Troubridge's young daughter Andrea, a lifelong aristocrat and elitist, and a political conservative whose early allegiances swayed toward fascism and anti-Semitism--none of them traits are precisely endearing to a modern audience...
...injured girl's dream come true. In essence they said this isn't real sports so we don't have to play by the real rules. It may have been kind, but it was patronizing. Tara VanDerveer, coach of No. 5-ranked Stanford, says, "It's like the parent who wants something for a kid, and because the kid couldn't get it you rig it or buy it. That's the problem people are having with it." The critics harbor a more obvious sexism. Women's sports--perhaps because they're in a protected, infant stage--involve consensus...