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...balance of power is clearly held by the colleges,” said Stephen Singer, the head college counselor at Horace Mann School in the Bronx. “They have the thing that all the kids want, and that’s the admit letter. If being admitted is an important thing, if people care about being admitted, then what difference does it make to Princeton and Brown’s daily existence that they are not a member of the national association...
Breimer said that Collegiate has always limited its students to one early application, while Singer said that Horace Mann will allow its students to apply early to multiple schools—as long as one of them is not Princeton or Brown...
...AILING. WARREN ZEVON, 55, black-humored singer-songwriter known for such hits as "Werewolves of London" and "Lawyers, Guns and Money"; with terminal lung cancer; in Los Angeles. Zevon, who once said that "If you're lucky, people like something you do early and something you do just before you drop dead," plans to spend his last days writing and recording as many songs as possible. "I'm okay with it," Zevon says of the diagnosis, "but it'll be a drag if I don't make it till the new James Bond movie comes...
...cavity probe. Before the festival opened, each band was asked to send a representative to what was described as an "extremely important meeting." There organizers announced that six songs had been struck by local government sponsors for "unhealthy" lyrics. The band originally scheduled to go on second, Masturbation (whose singer has a penchant for removing his clothes onstage), was bumped further back in the lineup so that local party officials, unlikely to stay too late, would not be exposed to its antics...
Coldplay's second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, finds the band plowing ahead with the bed-wetter thing and improving. Lead singer Chris Martin has a lovely high voice, and he has all the solipsistic tendencies of a latter-day Morrissey. He writes about breakups and sadness and fear of death, but unlike so many other weary chroniclers, he is a romantic not a cynic. When he sings "Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part" over the brooding keys of The Scientist or "The truth is I miss...