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Realistically, Harvard might well admit the aspirant student I met here on his test scores, GPA and leadership roles. Yet his cultural background will not overtly receive the same pluses that await other minorities. Of course, an 18-year-old who has managed to work 80-hour harvest weeks, while doing make-up schoolwork and teaching himself Latin is usually preferable to yet another Stuyvesant grad in the eyes of Harvard admissions. Then again, anyone who has raised himself out of the gang culture of an inner city to get a 1500 SAT score would likely gain admission to Harvard...
Truckers have long known that brevity is the soul of radio jabber. With push to talk, you'll find yourself ditching full thoughts for choppy exclamations that you fire off then await reply. Push to talk could be a welcome shove toward succinctness in phone chatter...
...longingly await the return of longer days we shouldn’t overlook the oft-unnoticed toll that gloom takes on us, physically and mentally, as individuals and as a society. But it doesn’t have to be this way—if we save daylight when it’s abundant, why not do the same when it’s scarce? We can’t afford to stay in the dark...
...professors who penned the October letter to Summers await a response, opponents of the Pentagon policy hope that the 3rd Circuit will take prompt action to suspend the statute’s enforcement...
...charmed, glamorous destiny seemed to await Mei-ling from the moment she was born into a remarkable family. (Her sister Soong Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.J. (Charlie) Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of Methodist evangelists in North Carolina, returned to China intending to be a missionary but became an entrepreneur instead. Mei-ling attended high school in Macon, Ga. She eventually returned home armed with a degree in English literature from Wellesley, the vestiges of a Southern drawl and so little Chinese that...