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...applaud Harvard" for eradicating early admissions altogether, says Pete Caruso, associate director of admissions at B.C. Five years ago, he says he might have been firmly in that camp. But today, the onslaught of applications-boosted by the ease of applying online-makes the administrative slog of processing them nearly unmanageable. Beginning the process early buys overworked college admissions workers a little extra time to provide "quality reads," he says...
Roger and Rafa offer dozens of differences. Federer, the two-time defending U.S. Open champ who has won eight Grand Slam singles titles, threatening Pete Sampras' record of 14 championships, is refined (he wore a cream-colored blazer to his Wimbledon matches) and sublime. "The way Roger moves, he's a ballet dancer out there," says McEnroe. "He floats above the court. His style is the most beautiful I've seen." Federer's volleys, awe-inspiring angled shots, and fluid one-handed backhand recall a bygone serve-and-volley era before today's high-tech racquets encouraged players to grip...
...come through an amazing few generations of American tennis champions, all the way back to Stan Smith, to John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, to Pete [Sampras] and myself. It's a standard that's a bit unrealistic as far as continuing generation after generation. That being said, we do have 290 million people to choose from...
...while processing this directive] Gordon and Sonny Stitt. And it's been known simply as the best jazz club outside of the U.S. ever since. Like the music itself, Ronnie Scott's has had to ride the tides of fashion, but the first principles devised by Scott and cofounder Pete King - a decent piano, a late bar and a warm welcome for all - have, until its recent $4 million makeover and relaunch, been little tinkered with. After Scott's death in 1996, King persevered for eight years but finally sold the club to British theater impresario Sally Greene...
...this is, for Pete's sake, an Oliver Stone movie. When this gifted, truculent director approaches this highly charged subject, we expect something other, something more, than honorable sentiment. It's as if Will Ferrell were to play Hamlet. Not that he couldn't, just that the audience would be waiting for the melancholy Dane to go all giggly, strip off his black tutu and run naked through Elsinore. Similarly, Stone's admirers (and detractors) will monitor World Trade Center for some of the conspiratorial vigor he brought to JFK, or the loopy critique, in Natural Born Killers, of extreme...