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...Andrew Knapp lost by a major decision to finish the day.“With Bode out, we had to move on,” Meltzer said. “For Robbie, we knew it was a temporary thing, but everyone on the team had to pick up the slack. I knew that through the middle [weight classes] we should be able to get a lot of wins, so I just made sure I started it off in the right direction and built the momentum.”“Bode is going to be sorely missed...
...That’s good news for Zambrano, who is hoping for “a little bit of slack on the SAT scores.” Perhaps they’ll put more weight on other parts of his applications, like his essays, which he sees as the strongest part of his application: “It’s not numbers and letters,” he says. “It’s the closest they can get to actually knowing me as a person rather than from a computer screen or numbers...
...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...