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Colleges want students who want them. That's one reason why kids who apply for early decision have a leg up. But for all applicants, it's unwise to skip a college's visit to your high school or, as a Rice applicant did, to ask an alumni interviewer if Rice was just a "second-tier" institution. As with most interactions a student has with a college, this one was duly noted. The interviewer wrote, "I don't think Rice should accept...
Nine-year-old Phylicia Dryer wants to be a pop star. Growing up in a music industry that has no qualms about the ethics of exploiting the very young, Phylicia's dreams of becoming the next Britney Spears may only be a hop, skip and breast implant away. As the youngest member of BreZe, a pre-teen pop-music foursome dubbed the Spice Babies (their combined age is 41), Phylicia already has Bill Kimber (who discovered Eurythmics) as her manager, as well as a share of a $1.5 million contract with Warner Brothers. She's tipped to be the biggest...
...Washington University Campus was already fully engaged in preparation. The football team has just finished an early morning practice; the cops begin setting out the barricades that will snarl traffic and make today a day to skip class; a woman paints in big red letters on the side of a bridge directions to the Ralph Nader rally (for you Nader supporters in St. Louis, the candidate will speak at a 5 p.m. rally today. You can find directions here. The Carnahan death is in the air; the cops talk about friends of theirs on the highway patrol who talked...
...Colleges want students who want them. That's one reason why kids who apply for early decision have a leg up. But for all applicants, it's unwise to skip a college's visit to your high school or, as one Rice applicant did, to ask an alumni interviewer if Rice was just a "second-tier" institution. As with most interactions a student has with a college, this one was duly noted. The interviewer wrote, "I don't think Rice should accept...
...renders her sitters varies. Some portraits give an impression of purposeful awkwardness, while others are just somehow off. Walking through the show, the figures become more colorful-blacks become blues, browns, yellows; purples appear-and the backgrounds behind them become simpler. The show does not skip over works from Neel's transitional periods, and rightly so-these paintings are essential to the greater comprehension of Neel's progress. Some of the canvases from this time seem to be painful births-one, "Randall in Extremis" (1960), even shows the sitter in a tormented growl-in which Neel's line becomes scraggily...