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...lowest possible value to the missing statistics; in one year, Reed fell from the second quartile to the fourth. (Since then, the iconoclastic school has suffered no shortage of qualified applicants.) U.S. News now plugs in whatever data it can find for nonparticipants. "They won't let you quit," Drew president Weisbuch says of the magazine's data collectors. "I would spell...
...Weisbuch, who has asked his faculty to vote this spring on whether to continue filling out the survey ("If it were up to me, we'd quit"), is helping draft the letter urging his peers to take bolder steps collectively. More than one president in the liberal-arts sub-30 neighborhood - Drew this year is tied for 69th - has said higher-ups need to jump ship first. But even the ?lites are worried about taking the plunge. In recent years, a top-ranked school got a new president who wanted to skip the survey. "I was told we would drop...
...says. As exercise methods go, walking requires not much in the way of accessories, yet Parks often found herself wishing for snazzier pedometers, age-appropriate shorts and a walking pal or two in a strange city. Her aha moment came in 2003: "This, I realized, was my passion." She quit Kinko's and started WalkStyles, a Web company offering equipment, apparel and networks to walking enthusiasts...
...fouled out with 1:37 left and walked off the court in a Hawk uniform for the last time to a standing ovation from the entire crowd and proceeded to hug coach Dan Leibovitz and the rest of his team.“I won’t quit at all for nothing,” Taylor said afterwards. “Don’t care if I had five fouls, I still would have played.”As great as the first game was, there were still three action-packed games to follow, as the fans...
Barack Obama is growing into the responsibilities ofa modern presidential candidate--he has promised his wife Michelle that he will try to quit smoking. "I've quit periodically over the last several years," he says. "I've got an ironclad demand from my wife that in the stresses of the campaign I don't succumb. I've been chewing Nicorette strenuously." Obama is learning what many aspirants to the White House have learned before him--we expect our Presidents to be perfect...