Word: righting
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...Admissions officers say the most successful essays show curiosity and self-awareness. Says Cornell's Saleh: "It's the only thing that really lets us see inside your soul." While there's no one right formula for soul baring, there are many wrong ones. It's disastrous to write, as one Rice applicant did, of what he could "bring to the University of California." A self-absorbed or arrogant tone is also a guaranteed turnoff. Exhibit A: a Rice essay beginning, "I have accumulated a fair amount of wisdom in a relatively limited time of life." Exhibit B: A Cornell...
...running away from it. Robb says he will not change his beliefs - he is pro-choice and pro?gun control - even if they are too liberal for a right-leaning state like Virginia. "I'm looking to win," said Robb last week, "but not for the wrong reasons or at all costs." This time around, he may be more battle weary than ready...
...band stopped a song entirely to issue this caring, if obvious, warning: "Take care of each other. Someone just got hurt. No show is more important than people's lives." It may not have been the punkest thing to say, but they've earned the right to stop minding that...
...story through his eyes, and it becomes a search for the object of the film or a way of looking: a subjective experience most mainstream films repress. For this film, he had no rehearsals; he just told his actors to say their lines when ready and do what was right for the character. He'd then shoot it (no surprise then that Bjork had a harrowing experience, and said she would never be able to make a film again). His camera mimics a casual observer thrown into the fray, panning, craning, trying to catch all the action and hear...
...pundits was willing to declare the end of the slide, the lately ailing indexes were all in the black, with NASDAQ soaring a fabulous 241 points (almost 8 percent, the second best of all time) and the Dow regaining 157 of its 379-point Thursday plummet. It was the right sort of rally, steady and uninterrupted, and it's sure tempting to look at the previous sessions' new lows - 3074 for the NASDAQ and 10,034 for the Dow - as the floor we've been looking...