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Congratulations, not just for your acceptance, although it feeds my ego to acclaim that shared accomplishment, but for sticking around an extra day to further investigate your college choice...
...genuine impression you have probably gathered from your weekend is that Harvard is an opinionated place. People really love or, some, really hate it. But that choice has as much to do with their mindset as it does with this place. So enjoy your extra day looking around. Pop your head into some classes, and think about why you might not want to come. Then come...
...Given managed care's sorry record, it's easy to see how doctors might be just a bit skeptical. While the administrative savings could be big for HMOs, they still earn 10% to 30% of their profits from the float--the interest on holding onto their premiums for an extra 30 to 90 days. At the same time, industry coalitions like MedUnite often collapse...
...country, it is also moot. Says Carolyn Henninger, a bookstore owner in Gainesville, Ga.: "Jabez has changed my life. I had never prayed for the Lord to bless me, to enlarge my territory. It's phenomenal that people I show the book to come back in and buy extra books they're sharing." Henninger has sold 2,300 copies, and says, "I hope I never...
Reality-show hosts are half devil, half angel, tempter and comforter. (Think Jeff Probst offering starving Survivors extra vittles in exchange for their tent.) Not so Anne Robinson of The Weakest Link (NBC, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a British import game show with a Survivor twist: players vote each other off. The dour, sarcastic host dismisses losers with a curt "You are the weakest link. Goodbye." (Thanks to NBC's weeks-long ad blitz, it may be the first TV catchphrase Americans have got sick of before its show even aired). But there's an integrity to her evil-Regis...