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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside College Admissions | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Yan Fang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Boys (and Girls) Are Back in Town | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life — and the Debate — Goes On | 10/17/2000 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In or Out: Inside College Admissions | 10/15/2000 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Ask Alice: Alice Neel's telling portraits of friends, family and art-world types | 10/13/2000 | See Source »

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