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...quite well, they were accepted without an application. We also accepted several other students based on their applications and/or on recommendations by members of the faculty, administrators, and the SAB, as well as the applicants’ references. We then interviewed several hundred students. The applications this year were superb; I wish we could appoint all 480 students who applied. Rising sophomores and juniors will have another opportunity next year to become part of the program.We did not accept or reject anyone simply on the basis of a single recommendation of any one faculty member, administrator, or SAB member. Four...
...French critics were mostly supporters of the film. Michel Ciment, the doyen of Positif magazine, and a member of a jury of critics convened by the daily Cannes edition of Screen International, gave Marie Antoinette four palms, the highest rating. The critic for Les Echoes called it "a superb film," and the one for Le Figaro said it was "prettily filmed." The French website Romandie.com pegged the Coppola movie, along with Pedro Almodôvar's Volver and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, as one of the top three contenders for the Palme...
...week, he found the artery 90% blocked. "A stent is out of the question," he told Keigans. "Your father is going to need a double bypass, and he needs it immediately." The blood drained from Keigans' face. While she loved their plush hospital suite and the staff had been superb, this was all happening too far from home. Steinard, though, was blunt about his choices. It's either this, he said, or a fatal heart attack back home. The surgery last week was successful; the hospital's bill...
...received superb care at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minn., for a malignant brain tumor, which is now in remission. Still, I was frightened by your cover story. Have I been blessed with dumb luck, or am I being treated by one of the best hospitals? Your article probably made countless people question the wisdom of trusting the medical world, and may have also discouraged some from seeking the care they urgently need. JACK MOSER Osceola...
...was already a superb band, featuring such Ellington stalwarts as Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams and Juan Tizol. But after bassist Jimmie Blanton and tenor-sax man Ben Webster signed on in 1939 and '40, it became the leader's best ever. The compelling evidence is on these three discs, on tracks like Cotton Tail, Ko-Ko, Jack the Bear and Harlem Air-Shaft. Individual glories abound, but the band's chief glory remains the nonpareil jazz composer whose instrument it was: the Duke himself...