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...same tracks, but with somewhat different foci. What minority students want to know when all is said and done is what it's like to be a minority student at a majority institution," Banks says. "Lots of students and their families have a full appreciation for the institution and the quality it represents, but they want to know whether, on a daily basis, this is a worthwhile experience for minority students...
...goes the dainty violence, nonetheless, for reasons that are somewhat understandable and forgivable, somewhat not. Writers tend to live in dank, airless cells of self-recrimination. Nothing is ever as good as it should be, and sometimes it is plain awful. Realizing what they have done, they hate themselves, frequently showing excellent judgment, and commit murder instead of suicide...
...season "was an enormous success," says Allen Weiner, vice president of analytical services at NetRatings, an e-commerce tracking firm. Jill Frankle, director of retail research at Gomez Advisors, agreed. An online poll her firm conducted the week after Christmas that showed 86.2% of online shoppers were at least somewhat satisfied with their experience; 46.5% were very satisfied, 25.7% were satisfied, 14% only somewhat so. Less than 2% of the 1,000 survey respondents said they would never shop online again...
Left out of the equation so far, however, are the perennial powers of the Ivy League--Penn and Princeton. Neither team has begun its league schedule, and both sport mediocre records. The numbers are somewhat deceiving, however, as both the Quakers and the Tigers have faced off against quality Division I competition...
...behavior after clinging for a week to a firm and defiant response that she had done nothing wrong. But that apology was not only late in coming but also very short on substance. In a State House press conference, she said, "I believe that I have been somewhat blinded...by my desire to do what is in the best interests of my family. The mistake I made is not realizing that as lieutenant governor I have to handle things differently...