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...understand the advantages of avoiding an SAT verdict better than Mark Meadows and Lien Le. Meadows says he can't remember exactly how he fared on the test, but he knows it wasn't a score that would vault him from a middle-class life in Santa Rosa, Calif., to Harvard. His mother, a nurse, had home-schooled him for several years, and his math skills were weak. He graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA and went to tiny Pacific Union College. But he thought he needed a bigger name on his graduate-school applications; he applied...
...Part of the reason why neither disc of this set works is that many of the songs work best within their albums' genre. Trompe le Monde, a very punky and loud album, doesn't mix well with Bossanova, full of surf music about aliens, or the southwest-influenced Surfer Rosa. The Pixies like to put strange sequences of conversations and feedback between songs on their albums. They're odd, but they fit, and they make the album work as a whole. Without this context, the album lacks any kind of continuity and makes the purpose of Death to the Pixies...
DIED. MARIA ROSA HENSON, 69, the first Filipina to reveal that she had served as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manila. One of 46 "comfort women" who filed suit against Japan in 1993, Henson was among the few who accepted compensation from a private fund and a letter of apology from Japan's Prime Minister...
Churchill, no doubt, and Roosevelt. But which Roosevelts: Franklin, Eleanor and Teddy? Who was more influential: Stalin or Lenin? Ford or Gates? John Lennon or Mick Jagger? Elvis? Louis Armstrong? Margaret Sanger? Rosa Parks? Marlon Brando? Einstein? Picasso? Mother Teresa? Jackie Robinson? Which ones were truly important, and what will their legacies be for the next millennium? As the debate progresses, we'll keep you updated and look forward to your input. Please let us know what you think...
...Rosa J. Soler, associate director for recruitment and multicultural affairs at HMS, says the school acknowledges that there are underrepresented groups not recognized in the AAMC guidelines, especially under the umbrella term "Asian...