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...hire independent education consultants. For fees that can top $2,000, these self- styled experts assess a student's strengths, draw up a list of recommended schools, conduct mock interviews and make sure all materials are filed on time. "It takes a lot of pressure off parents," says one Rye, N.Y., mother. "And it's a tremendous relief for my daughter as well...
...successful in studies as in sports. When I asked him what books had shaped his life, he answered Hynes' Flights of Passage -- a rather late entry. Asked for earlier influences, he said, "Well, we had a lot of obligatory reading when I was young -- Moby Dick, Catcher in the Rye, Gentleman's Agreement. They shaped my ((life)), in various ways. How? I had to go back and give a book review on each of those when I was 17." Actually, two of those three books were written after he was 17, but the reviews he remembers were written for Hart...
...might be possible to sympathize with Adam and the things that disturb him if he were about 15 years younger. The Boys and Their Baby might turn into a sort of 1980s Catcher In The Rye. But Adam is 30 years old, a college graduate, yet he seems completely incapable of making decisions on his own. So what does Adam do? Like a typical child who can't handle his problems, Adam just picks up and leaves Boston, fleeing to San Francisco where he moves in with his college roomate with whom he hasn't spoken in over a decade...
...Oceanographer Melissa Denny decided a few years ago that it was time to stay home and cultivate her children, she and her husband bought a house in Everett, Wash., on half an acre of mud and blackberries. Her staunchly evergreen neighbors watched in amazement as she planted clover and rye grass, let it grow a foot high, then plowed it under. Raised vegetable beds and fruit trees began to appear. Then local children gathered, holding tricycle races on the sawdust paths. "They all come over to graze," she laughs. "I have to grow twice as many strawberries and raspberries...
...here he is back in the 1980s, doing what? Writing a what? Not just any novel but a work that has grabbed the attention of New York literati. "It [Bonfire of the Vanities] is the first novel that I can remember since Catcher in the Rye that you can assume everybody has read. It is a common denominator among literary people," says Clay Felker, who edited Wolfe two decades ago back at The New York Herald Tribune and is now editor of Manhattan...