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...high-stakes nature of that one piece.” This is a worthy intention, but unfortunately, the move will be counterproductive. Students will now lose sleep over how to express themselves in three 200-word segments—in addition to fretting over crafting the perfect 500-word statement still required of other schools. College consultants who used to help write 500 word personal statements will not disappear either, but rather quickly shift their assistance to the short essays...
...James Pouillon of Michigan. Violence, as expected, draws emotional responses. Should the GOP start labeling liberal activists as nothing but estranged murderers? If Republicans should follow precedent from Democrats in terms of generating disrespect against the government, as Syed claims they should, then the results would not be as perfect as liberals want us to think. After 9/11, leftists began instigating claims that the Bush administration was behind the attacks to generate incentive for invading Iraq. Would this be the example of disrespect Syed is alluding we follow? Subversion and breaching the trust to the government that fights to ensure...
What happens, of course, when an immigrant group heads toward assimilation, is that each successive generation gets more educated (82% of first-generation Latin-American kids ages 15 to 17 attend school, compared with 97% of second-generation kids - hardly perfect but moving toward parity) and more proficient in the national language (by the third generation, 95% of Latino kids ages 15 to 17 speak English exclusively or very well). Another thing that happens is that parents start moving away from baby names like Guillermo and closer to names like William. "When [immigrant or later-generation] parents name their children...
...Chenoweth, the strategy was perfect...
...Boyer has also authored a pending law awaiting upper-house approval that calls for prison terms and fines for people who encourage and promote anorexia, like those who run so-called pro-ana websites and blogs. However, she says her new proposal was written less out of concern that perfect figures in doctored photos were driving women to develop eating disorders and more out of a fear that enhanced images were giving the public an intentionally fabricated picture of reality. (Read "Study: Is Vegetarianism a Teen Eating Disorder...