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It has been said??that picking the right college can be as crucial to future success and happiness as picking the right mate. That's essentially the logic behind Destination-U.com a new online search service for college-bound students. It was developed by Greg Waldorf, a venture capitalist who is on the board of matchmaking service eHarmony.com and his mother Toby, who for 15 years has been privately advising high schoolers on applying to college. "The recommendations we give are quite personalized--similar to what I do in the office with clients," says Toby...
...money from her husband's business financed her 1978 campaign. "My money paid for my campaign ..." When she was asked a complex and tendentious question by a reporter from the right-wing daily Washington Times, she maintained her humor. "I knew I shouldn't have called on you," Ferraro said???and then answered...
...dances. He shuts himself up at the house in a room that has no mirrors?"Mirrors make you pose," he has said???and cuts loose to his own music or to the Isley Brothers' Showdown, practicing what Dancer Hinton Battle calls "moves that kill. It's the combinations that really distinguish him as an artist. Spin, stop, pull up leg, pull jacket open, turn, freeze. And the glide, where he steps forward while pushing back. Spinning three times and popping up on his toes. That's a trademark, and a move a lot of professionals wouldn...
...Shanghai Communique. Nixon had seen and approved a draft communique prepared by me and my staff. It followed the conventional style, highlighting fuzzy areas of agreement and obscuring differences with platitudinous generalizations. Quite uncharacteristically, the Premier made a scorching one-hour speech?at the express direction of Mao, he said???declaring that our approach was unacceptable. The communique had to set forth fundamental differences; otherwise the wording would have an "untruthful appearance." Our present draft was the sort of banality the Soviets would sign but neither mean nor observe...
Spreading shutdowns. Taxpayer rebellions against ever-rising educational costs, which are largely supported by property taxes, are forcing school systems to the financial wall. Partly because the city did not put a school tax increase on the Nov 8 ballot?it would never pass, officials said???Cleveland's 110,000-student system is flat broke and remains open only because a federal court has said it cannot close. Some 40 other Ohio school districts are also facing shutdowns...