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What makes a college admissions officer say yes to one applicant and no to the next? To answer that question, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg spent a year observing the selection process at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. The result is his new book, The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College (Viking). Steinberg talks with TIME about the dos and don'ts of getting kids into the school of their choice...
What extraordinary things this unpretentious Beatle--with his unfailing heart and unstinting discipline--accomplished through guitar playing, songwriting and fund raising. But these are also the characteristics of the great saints, yogis and enlightened spirits throughout the ages. CHRIS TONG Middletown, Calif...
...months. The boys have heard the dirges of the pipe-and-drum corps from their desks; their classmates have served as altar boys. Mike's eldest brother, Robert, left Staten Island years ago, but the tragedy followed him: he works as a psychologist in the public schools of Middletown, N.J., the quiet bedroom community that buried 34 residents; six of his students lost a parent in the disaster...
There are bankers and bond traders and fire fighters and clerks with 40, 50, 60 funerals to attend; their wedding albums are full of smiling pictures of dead people. St. Mary's in Middletown, N.J., lost more parishioners in one day than the whole town did during all of World War II. At a home in a bucolic suburb of New York City, a mother of three school-age children mourns both her husband and her brother; 2,000 people attended her husband's memorial last week, spilling out onto the streets. The house is draped in a full-size...
Willis, 52, is an African-American professor of Buddhism at Wesleyan University. At her home in Middletown, Conn., she points to a snapshot of the 1981 encounter, noting that only after a decade of meditation was she able to examine her blackness. She adds, "I became able to deal with the deep wounds of race because of Buddhist practice...