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...accepts is 220, and the lowest it will take is around 185. “And you’d have to feel that 190 underrepresents their ability, preparation and potential,” she says. “If a kid looks like he can think with a pen, a 580 [SAT score] might underestimate him. If his dad is a house painter, he probably scores lower. If he’s a great football player with modest scores but good recommendations and grades, say, 550 and 580 and 10th in a class of 400, that?...
...world is gone now and though kids still write Southie on their backpacks in pen ink and claim neighborhood allegiance, it all feels somehow inauthentic. I know it’s over because of the kids without accents and the BMWs on East Sixth St. but was reminded of it when I rode under the interstate at West Fourth and over a broken bottle of Corona Extra, not the first one that I’d seen in the gutters and alleys around the neighborhood...
...commentator Nicolas Baverez, whose best-selling book France Is Falling has turned national decline into the No. 1 topic among the commentariat. Baverez says the shocking results of the first round of presidential elections in April 2002 - when French voters put far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen into a runoff with Chirac - amounted to "a national cry of distress." The massive mandate for Chirac in the second round, bolstered by parliamentary elections in June 2002 that gave conservatives a 68% majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes," Baverez argues...
...based, a process that offered some sharp insights into my intellectual shortcomings but revealed absolutely nothing about Coetzee himself. All my questions were similarly treated, and I wound up sounding like a reporter for a fanzine. "What kind of music do you like?" I asked, desperately. The pen scratched, the great writer cogitated. "Music I have never heard before," he said. And this is about as colorful an anecdote as you'll ever hear about John Maxwell Coetzee. He is intensely private (some say cripplingly shy) and deeply (some say coldly) intellectual, but above all, he is a grand master...
Derek Lowe, Boston’s Game 3 starter, dominated Oakland with a 1.64 ERA in two starts this year. True, watching Boston’s bullpen is not for the faint of heart. But remember, the Sox have won 95 games with that pen this year, so it can’t be that...