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...Lady luck smiled on us for once,” Princeton coach Joe Scott said. “It hadn’t smiled on us too much this year...
...applications. “I think usually when you have one big increase there is a tendency to level off,” Fitzsimmons said.With last year’s increase came more rejections, which Fitzsimmons said may have made some students and guidance counselors wary of trying their luck with Byerly this year.“That kind of thing can also drive people not only into other colleges’ application pools, it can drive them into Early Decision pools” at schools like Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, Fitzsimmons said. Early applications for both schools...
...sang at the Patriots game,” said Huff, who has worked at Harvard for almost 23 years. Huff said that after it became public knowledge in Adams that her niece was going to be on TV, several students came up to her wishing Brown good luck and saying that they would look for her on the program. Asked what she thought of Brown’s chances in the contest, Huff laughed and said that she thought they were good. “But I’m biased!” she said. On the Boston auditions...
...Good luck, you guys,” were Glazer’s last words as he departed...
...BEING CALLED AN OVERNIGHT SUCCESS, BUT YOU'VE BEEN WORKING STEADILY FOR A LONG TIME. That's just the nature of this business. There are so many talented people here, and there are so many different machineries working for the other talents. It's a combination of luck and preparation in order for all this to happen. You know how many brilliant performances there were this year? But it's almost like what they say in [Paulo Coelho's] The Alchemist, "When you seek out your own personal legend, the universe conspires...