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Each year, high schools across the country compete for Harvard acceptances. Most have one or two. But a few select schools have many...
...Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools, Peter W. Cookson and Caroline Hodges Persell write "[h]istorically, a small group of boarding schools, including the select 16, have had a very close relationship with the Ivy League colleges, and with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in particular...
...Cohen raised party hackles by voting against the GOP's original budget last fall. But his reputation for independence goes back to 1974 when Cohen, then a freshman representative, voted to impeach Richard Nixon. He called it "the most difficult decision of my life." Having served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and as chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower, Cohen plans to pursue opportunities in international trade. TIME's Larry Barrett notes "among several Republicans leaving Congress voluntarily, William Cohen is without doubt one of the brightest and most willing to take thoughtful, independent stands...
...Friday, forecasters are calling for up to 2 feet of snow in parts of western Maryland, with at least several inches predicted for most of the coast. TIME Daily'sspecial coverageincludes reports from the National Weather Service and TIME correspondents in RealAudio, plus a look behind the weather and select links to other Web resources.SNOWJACKED!If New Yorkers drank as one from the cup of human kindness during the surreal snowfall last weekend, now they're suffering the hangover. Case in point: as hundreds of car owners dug their vehicles from mountains of plowed-and-packed snow throughout the city...
...believe the races should be separated, but [Burmeister] went way beyond that." According to the Washington Post, Burmeister also hung around a handful of other soldiers, secret skinheads, during off-hours. They wore red suspenders and used white laces in their black boots to mark themselves as a select group. Burmeister had moved in with Menseau and her husband in June because he couldn't get along with his fellow paratroopers...