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...made the show a national sensation. American Idol follows the same formula. The judges crossed the country and heard thousands of crooners and caterwaulers, narrowing them to 30 who are performing on the series over a three-week period. Viewers voting by phone (3 million last week) will winnow them to nine, plus a "wild card" picked by the judges. The final 10 will perform (and get re-critiqued) each week, with one ejected every Wednesday until Sept. 4, when the winner will score a recording contract with...
...take what I hear and winnow it down and present it to her in terms so that she has some sense of consensus about individual people,” Linsky says...
...should be on our list of America's Best scientists and doctors, assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt and his team pulled together more than 100 names in nearly as many specialties. That was the easy part. We then picked seven experts and asked them to help us winnow the list. That was the fun part...
...value of high school transcripts eroded, U.C. finally started requiring SAT scores from all applicants. From that point, the test grew into a national juggernaut. Within a matter of years, as college attendance skyrocketed, many admissions offices were relying heavily on the standardized SAT scores to help winnow piles of applications...
...value of high school transcripts eroded, U.C. finally started requiring SAT scores from all applicants. From that point, the test grew into a national juggernaut. Within a matter of years, as college attendance skyrocketed, many admissions offices were relying heavily on the standardized SAT scores to help winnow piles of applications...