Word: vocalized
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...about 20,000 kids will apply to Harvard this year, thousands of whom never saw a 1,300 on their first practice test, and few appreciate being passed over for a defensive lineman who could barely get into Cornell if he didn’t play football. An increasingly vocal set of critics think that traditional academic considerations are all too often left on the bench. Former Princeton president William G. Bowen just published the follow-up book to his 2000 The Game of Life, called Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values, arguing that recruited athletes are academically...
...well as the jocks who get in because of them: “gladiators.” Of course, no Harvard coach or admissions official will admit to any statistical balancing act, but many are eager to point fingers. “Some schools will be vocal about taking a lower-end AI person with a higher-end,” says men’s basketball head coach Frank Sullivan. Nonetheless, if you see a straight-A student around campus who played sports in high school and was recruited but never played a game for Harvard, you?...
...marrying age, today's twenty-and thirtysomethings would much prefer a broken betrothal to a "broken home." Breaking an engagement is difficult, but rather than face it with shame, many almost-unhappily-marrieds see it as a wise, even courageous act. Such "disengaged" individuals have become increasingly visible and vocal. Nobody tracks how many engagements are broken each year, and people in the always-upbeat wedding industry are reluctant to even discuss the issue. However, in an online national poll of 565 single adults conducted in August by Match.com/Zoomerang for TIME, 20% said they had broken off an engagement...
...program progressed chronologically, including an original jazz composition by Tobey entitled “Midlothian Rhapsody” and Furrow’s tender vocal rendition of Seymour Simons and Gerald Marks’ “All of Me.” Furrow, who has played the trumpet at previous recitals, made his debut on the piano with the Mario Brothers theme song taught to him by his roommates...
...best we can do with a few people and a keyboard,” said Tobey. Their answer to the challenge included Furrow’s acting as the timpani, providing the necessary “bom, bom, bom, bom”s with his vocal chords. Crowd favorites at past recitals have included the theme from Love Story and Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive...