Word: slackly
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...comes to mind (another autumn pie, a natural next step). This opens up a whole wealth of fruit pie thoughts—not to mention one-crust versus two-crust versus lattice-top—and suddenly you’re standing in front of Out of Town News slack-jawed and drooling with no recollection of how you got there, screaming at people about blueberries and buttery flaky crust. Wait, that’s never happened to you? Fine, call me an addict. But I’ve found my perfect fix down a side-street...
...Slack, Admissions Accomplished Number of Students: 20 Cost: $300 per session, meets every week Pro Bono: At least 1 student per year Web site: AdmissionsAccomplished.com Success: 95% accepted to one of their top three schools Charlotte M. Klaar, College Consulting Services Number of Students: 30 Cost: $3,250 for package Pro Bono: 3-4 a year Web site: ccs4college.com Success: Not listed Nadine C. Warner, Admissions Consultants Number of Students: 10 for Nadine; 1,000 overall Cost: $125/hour or $2,975 for recommended Platinum package Pro Bono: None or on a personal basis Web site: admissionsconsultants.com Success: Not listed Michele...
...Eliot put it, “I care no[t]… for the young men who have no capacity for an intellectual life.” Such people will always exist, and barring a change in the current pool of students, there will always be slack students. But even abuse is likely to be far less than the kind in Eliot’s day. For one thing, we have better students; meritocracy has ensured this. For another, we have mitigating factors, like the concentration system which developed after Eliot, to ensure that students maintain a degree...
...picture. Others will note the anonymity of the other players and see it as a lengthy, overambitious art-house entry. Those of us who think Gonzlez Irritu is one of the movies' larger youngish talents will perhaps be inclined to cut him a good deal of slack...
...basic knowledge for everyday life. If the federal government feels that young Americans are being minted with bachelor’s degrees without basic literacy and quantitative skills, it should perhaps reconsider its massive funding cuts to school districts across the country before suggesting that colleges take up the slack. Colleges, instead, are charged with cultivating broad understandings of the world and producing citizens who are productive and curious members of our society. Little of this, however, can be tracked by an expensive and cumbersome apparatus of surveys and statisticians...