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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no formula to gauge whether a student should be admitted or rejected, admissions officials say, and subjective criteria such as extracurricular activities and personal qualities also play a significant role. The Stonecypher complaint takes issue with the soft criteria the admissions office uses, and focuses on the issue of race...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: White Applicant Says Black Admit Favored | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

There is no formula to gauge whether a student should be admitted or rejected, admissions officials say, and subjective criteria such as extracurricular activities and personal qualities also play a significant role. The Stonecypher complaint takes issue with the soft criteria the admissions office uses, and focuses on the issue of race...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: White Applicant Says Black Admit Favored | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

There is no formula to gauge whether a student should be admitted or rejected, admissions officials say, and subjective criteria such as extracurricular activities and personal qualities also play a significant role. The Stonecypher complaint takes issue with the soft criteria the admissions office uses, and focuses on the issue of race...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: White Applicant Says Black Admit Favored | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...body." Hence her body-art and performance pieces through the '70s and '80s, in which bodies (her own or others') got fitted out with bandage-like wraps -- symbols of Horn's obsession with healing -- or with peculiar extensions like a unicorn horn, or fingers several feet long, or enveloping soft forms like The Feathered Prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mechanics Illustrated | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...feared and savored. In the rest of the country, the Heidi story was rancid catnip for a slow news summer. But the Michael Jackson story goes deeper -- yes, and deeper than the sad public frolics of Woody Allen a year ago. For as pitiable and lunatic as Jackson's soft eccentricities make him appear in the skeptical public eye, he had surely convinced the world of his devotion to children and his empathy with them. It was as if, deprived of a normal childhood, he wanted to create a paranormal one in his Neverland lab. Bring on the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson: Who's Bad? | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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