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...current Loeb Experimental Theatre production “Lady Windermere’s Fan” that runs through this Saturday, a chance to get out of playing sports resulted in the discovery of acting, a pursuit she has been deeply involved with ever since. I was in seventh grade at an all-girls school, and our brother school was putting on a play and needed five girls to be in it, so instead of sports, which was really the only thing to do at my school, I got to be in a play. From that first role as Hippolyta...
...hardwood that his rushing talent was first suspected, when the coach pushed him to try out for the football squad. Ho had never even heard of the sport before entering the eighth grade, but the youngster tried out nonetheless...
...teaching SAT strategies to the denizens of Park Avenue. But is tutoring miniature millionaires with drug addictions easy? Well yes, it actually is. As Mr. Thayer, the father of Noah’s two students puts it, “All you do is teach seventh-grade math to eleventh-graders...You’re paid to be friends with my children and photocopy words out of the dictionary...
PRINCETON'S STUDENT BODY president placed the ball in the administration's court last week with a substantial critique of the school's grade-capping policy. Today the Daily Princetonian offers a volley from the dean of the college, dismissing the critique, which noted that Princeton admitted more academically talented students in the period when GPAs began to rise. The dean's response is in two parts: 1) The reasoning is flawed; and 2) Even if it weren't flawed, Princeton still has "the responsibility to hold [students] to higher standards." It's unclear where this leaves the student body...
...Republicans - especially Karl Rove - have achieved an almost mythological reputation for their campaign savvy, but So Goes exposes this brilliance as, essentially, a strategy based on acting like an adult. The G.O.P.'s major achievements: They stayed on message. They didn't leak. We expect the same from grade schoolers. Yes, this basic competence was combined with a certain amount of ruthlessness, but ruthlessness is not what the Democrats lacked. While willing to "fight with their fists," the Kerry campaign comes across as confused at both a macro and micro level. Given little direction, the volunteers marvel at their colleague...