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Just think of it: We could sit around and watch our senators and congresspeople debate water-usage laws and legislative procedures. No makeup! No Band-Aids! No product placement! All absolutely real!! All absolutely boring...
...news day when former president Gerald Ford makes the front page of anything besides the Grand Rapids Golfer's Gazette. But the New York Daily News' "exclusive" bid Monday to transform the normally inconsequential chatter of a political nonentity into serious campaign fodder was questionable perhaps only in its placement...
...exposures a day. Few go to waste. Since January the site has had 6 million hits, most by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nothing is too minor or boring for the electronic audience. "To watch the pattern and progress of the concrete placement," the site recently instructed, "check the archive images from noon on May 19th, and continue throughout the afternoon." Some might call this obsessive. To the physical residents of Nauvoo it is, well, unnerving...
...That day I was their pet. I sat in Dave's living room in Eliot and just watched him and his roommate Andre stick posters on the walls and argue about the placement of the furniture. They fussed over me--how did I like my dorm, and Annenberg, and what did I think of the place--not too much, but enough so that I talked and felt witty and knowledgeable, an insider on my first day. Everything impressed me: the vintage hexagonal tiles in their bathroom, the working fireplace, the slant of the light, Andre's chic black shoes (that...
...admissions officers try to use other test scores to gauge academic accomplishment, such as Advanced Placement (AP) tests. But Fitzsimmons acknowledges that even AP tests and other tests are all correlated with a person's socioeconomic status. Poorer schools may not have the resources to offer AP classes...