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...Like colleges everywhere, Middlebury was deluged with a record number of applications - 5,400 - for the 515 seats in its freshman class. Which means that, as every parent, teacher, student and guidance counselor well knows, the competition for admission has grown exponentially fiercer in recent years. The not unsubtle subtext of Middlebury's communiqu? is that unless you're a world-renowned peace crusader - or Alan Alda sidekick! or circus performer! or something else truly eccentric! - the odds of getting into an elite school have lately shrunk to Powerball-like improbability...
...DirecTV's 10 million households would make Murdoch No. 1 in satellite TV in the U.S., and No. 3 in pay TV, behind only AT&T's cable operations, with more than 14 million cable subscribers, and AOL Time Warner, with almost 13 million. (AOL Time Warner is the parent of TIME...
...Airways says Metrojet is doing so badly it might even kill the subsidiary as part of its new strategy. If they can't make money with an airline designed especially for the job, what do you think can be achieved with the parent carrier...
...music industry has fallen heavily on the shoulders of German media executive Hilbers. Last month he left BMG, the music branch at Bertelsmann AG, to run the lawsuit-plagued music site Napster. Before joining BMG, Hilbers, 38, spent four years managing AOL Europe, a property of TIME's parent company. Now he will try to transform Napster from industry rogue to copyright-respecting subscription service...
...other creams, Fair & Lovely contains no harmful ingredients and is actually certified safe by the Kenya Bureau of Standards. Still, he says, many of the more harmful products continue to sell because people want quick results. "Are you familiar with the 50-50 concept: someone who has one black parent and one white?" he asks, explaining the social pressures on women to lighten their skin. "When a girl like that walks into a bar all the men will look at her. So other girls want to make themselves like that...