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...president and the business manager of the Harvard-Radcliffe Yearbook were dismissed for spending abuses, a source close to the organization said Monday...
Hundreds of nominations poured in from TIME's domestic bureaus. The first cut produced 137 names. The second, and most excruciating, yielded 50. "It was like selecting the person who is Most Likely to Succeed for the school yearbook," says assistant editor Elizabeth Rudulph, who coordinated research for the project. "You don't want to pick someone who will peak early and then fade." By the same token, says Faith Corman, a free-lance journalist who also worked on the issue, "an overachiever is not the same thing as a leader...
...military officer who moved often, but in the family's travels, she says, "we hit Texas four times because we knew the local Congressman." In high school in Austin, Texas, having failed to make the Tex-Anns drill team, she stumbled across a primitive form of journalism -- yearbook writing ("I needed something to do in fifth period"). She went on to get a journalism degree at the University of Texas in Austin, then worked for two years on the San Antonio Light. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1981, she joined the Los Angeles Times, for which she covered...
...standardized tests. While the national average is in the 50th percentile, the average home-schooled students register between the 65th and 80th percentiles. Nor is this unconventional background necessarily a disadvantage when students apply for college. With no grade-point averages or class ranks, no chance to edit the yearbook or captain the soccer team, home- schooled students must have top test scores to win admission to the most selective schools. But many colleges are eager to welcome freshmen who bring different experiences of learning. "What it really boils down to is getting a sense of a student's intellectual...
...fact, Cole exaggerated not only his skills but also his accomplishments in bridge. In the entry next to his picture in the 1984 Columbia yearbook, Cole claims to have won "6 National Bridge Championships; 4 World Championship...