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...this way, Fitzsimmons finds a peer in Thomas H. Parker, Fitzsimmons’ counterpart at Amherst, a small, liberal arts college consistently ranked one of the best in the nation. At around the same time that Fitzsimmons was making his cross-cultural journey from Braintree to Harvard, Parker, the son of a gym teacher and a telephone operator, traveled from his home in Brooklyn to Williams College...
...late 1980s, the two deans’ similar backgrounds and access goals caught up with them. As Parker tells it, they both found themselves punching the same traits into a College Board database that allowed admissions offices to send out what are called “search letters,” or letters advertising a college’s interest in a student, to particular kinds of applicants...
...using it to search low-income kids. The following year, the College Board said we’ve discontinued that—because so many colleges were using it to search for high-income kids. I never dreamed that people were doing what they were doing,” Parker says...
Other than filing expenses, it's hard to imagine a duller office chore than updating your address book. But help might be at hand. Sean Parker, a co-founder of Napster, is here to help. The onetime online-music exec is the mind behind Plaxo (plaxo.com), a company providing free, easily downloaded software that integrates with Microsoft Outlook to keep your address book up to date. So long as your contact is also a Plaxo user, any changes to his or her phone number, e-mail address or postal address will be automatically sent to your...
...economist to say whether the economy is turning around or not but in spite of all our troubles, here in the USA we have access to goods and services that other people around the world don't even dream of. Let's be thankful for what we have. Harrison Parker California...