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...said her book stands out from the plethora of admission-advice guides. “Joyce knows about the subtle differences that tip the scales,” he said. “To have an insider’s perspective from someone who has been on the other side would be helpful for close-call cases.” But Curll said that the book was written with the knowledge and support of the Law School admissions office, Law School spokesman Robert L. J. London ’79 wrote in an e-mail yesterday that Curll?...
...make us laugh. As long as there have been Republican presidents, they’ve been kind of funny. Lincoln was a veritable wellspring of quips and anecdotes; Taft at least looked jolly; Reagan was a laugh-a-minute, from Star Wars missile defense systems to his side-splitting trickle-down economics. Democrats, by contrast, have been a soberer lot. Wilson? Roosevelt? Gore? As the “Green is the New Crimson” address reinforced, a Gore administration wouldn’t have been funny at all. It would just have been deeply concerned about serious issues...
...greatest Ivy League matches in the program’s history, winning the game and the Ivy title in a 2-1 double-overtime thriller. What mattered nearly as much was what happened off the field. The crowd packed the stands, spiraling out to the Columbia side of the field. From the final 10 minutes of regulation until Lizzy Nichols’ penalty kick winner with nine seconds to go, no one sat down. For almost 30 minutes of Saturday’s game, no one stopped cheering. For a team that is often overshadowed by its men?...
...balcony of my hotel to speak to us Arabs, but only if he came out against Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem. His advisers never came back." Dajani adds, "They know that any Jewish candidate who said those things would have no chance of winning on the Jewish side." Two days before the election, Gaydamak offered to halt the demolition of Arab houses in East Jerusalem...
...Arab side of town, election day usually starts with a sickening ritual: the few brave voters who appear are beaten up by Palestinian militants. Word of the attacks then spreads swiftly around East Jerusalem, and other Arabs stay away. Beitar's fans may be right: the millions of shekels lavished on the Arab vote may be wasted, as they could be spent on new star players for Gaydamak's luckless team. Meanwhile, Jerusalem, the capital of three monotheistic faiths, could drift toward religious intolerance. As columnist Tom Segev writes glumly in the newspaper Haaretz, "All that is left...