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...Bernstein sees nothing wrong with sticking to the old pattern of recommendation. She says that she thinks social studies concentrators—since they must write theses—are stronger candidates on the whole, a justification for recommending all but one of her students for honors...
...real thing. At Gatsby's, Fink stocks up on Indian kurtas from labels like Royal Sari and Lotta ($39 to $169). She even travels annually to Bali to select her own line of beachwear--printed cotton pants and tunics. "The Balinese have an amazing sense of color and pattern," says Fink. "So when it's too hot to wear jeans but you still want to look sexy, these lightweight cotton pants are a great find"--on or off the beach. --With reporting by Betsy Kroll
...time in 18 or so years, I wont be heading to school. I wont buy notebooks or sourcebooks; I will not buy or sharpen a fistful of number two pencils. I will not, come September, plan an outfit to wear on the first day of school. And so a pattern that has been varied and repeated with the pleasant regularity of Dickens novels through most of my life will be broken. I am not scared so much as I am bemused. I do not have a template for whatever will happen next...
...younger generation brave and happy, ready to strike out on their own. And as I closed Dombey and Son, my regret was mingled with fierce curiosity about their fates, and a sense that the unwritten part of their livesthe part that did not hew to the Dickensian pattern I knew so wellmight be more interesting than the part that had preceded...
...story's potential to harm the U.S. abroad, Newsweek should not have published it, even if it were true. Robert Zelnick, chairman of Boston University's journalism department and a former Pentagon correspondent for ABC News, draws a distinction between Abu Ghraib, where there was a systematic pattern of prisoner abuse, and the allegation of an isolated act of Koran desecration at Guantánamo, however deplorable. "In this case," he says, "I think the potential for mischief was so great and the journalistic value of the information so small that I would have made a decision not to go with...