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...course. If the concern is blocks of friends voting for a pal's stellar performance rather than that of a stranger who never had the chance to be evaluated, Dartboard has the solution: make the competition even more personal. Categories can be narrow enough that few students would vote for any particular student. All categories will be open to innumerable winners, so that no qualified and praise-starved student will be ignored. Here are some suggestions for new categories...
Senior second baseman Muchie Dagiere is capping a stellar career in stellar fashion, hitting .462 with 42 RBI. He has struck out just four times in 30 games and went 3-for-4 and scored three runs against the Eagles...
Gonzalez was not alone in his stellar play. Another great Crimson performance was turned in by freshman Matt Dost. He turned in a 79, nine over par in Friday's heavy winds and rainy conditions. When the sun peaked through the clouds on Saturday he scored an amazing 72, two over par, the third best score posted...
This spring the admissions committee of the University of California, Berkeley evaluated a Latino applicant whose grades and college-board scores were good but not stellar. Following Berkeley's newly redesigned admissions policy, however, the committee looked well beyond the raw numbers. The members learned that although his parents spoke only Spanish, the applicant had single-handedly found his way to a magnet school devoted to science an hour from his home. They took note of the fact that as his English improved, so had his grades. And translating for his parents, as the boy frequently did, had given...
...long since proved that there's money to be made simply by telling people where to go. The veteran search engines--brand names like Yahoo and Excite, Lycos and Infoseek, HotBot and Alta Vista--still dominate the Web's Top 10 traffic lists despite less than stellar performance. The journal Science reports, for example, that the best search engines sample no more than a third of the hundreds of millions of sites in existence. Yet last March, according to the Web research firm RelevantKnowledge, a startling 31 million "unique visitors" accessed Yahoo yahoo.com) making it not just the world...