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...name "Alice Metzinger" had been lifted from the birth certificate of an infant who died the year the gourmet chef was born. Metzinger was really Katherine Ann Power. Before coming to the Northwest, she had lived underground for nine years in women's communes. Before that, she was a straight-A sociology major, who had become a central figure of the Brandeis Strike Information Center, a clearinghouse for information about student strikes all over the country. Professor Richard Onorato, then dean of students, recalls that she had broken into the student-council office to steal stationery to print a political...
...clear evidence, however, that admissions committees at elite colleges are turning away a growing percentage of Asian American applicants in the interests of "diversity." A study of UC Berkeley's admission procedures, for example, revealed that in 1989, Berkeley turned down more than 2500 white and Asian applicants with straight-A averages, while virtually accepting every Black applicant with a GPA of a B or higher. A university admission report from UCLA in 1987 revealed that Asian applicants had a 41 percent acceptance rate to the university, compared to 85 percent for Hispanics and 73 percent for Blacks...
...close, almost symbiotic relationship between Wynton and Branford marked their childhood and continued into their young manhood. Wynton, extraordinarily disciplined and driven by an insatiable desire to excel, was a straight-A student who starred in Little League baseball, practiced his trumpet three hours a day and won every music competition he ever entered. Branford, older by 13 months, was an average student, a self-described "spaz" in sports and a naturally talented musician who hated to practice. Yet both brothers deny that there was any rivalry between them. "Our personalities were formed to each other," says Wynton...
Sara's life fell apart when she started high school last year. A straight-A student in grade school, she began skipping classes, dating a physically abusive older student and wearing only black. By winter, she was trying to kill herself. Sara, who says she felt rejected by her parents, calmly recites her attempts: "Four or five times I took pills. Once I almost slit my wrists, and I tried to hang myself once." With therapy, Sara, at 15, sees a future. One sign: she is wearing colors again...
...wonders, for example, if the teachers at Palmer Academy in Wesley Chapel, Fla., felt just a little silly having homework assignments faxed to straight-A student Jennifer Capriati during a week when she earned $28,000 on the tennis court alone, probably more than some of those teachers make in a year. They will face that question again and again in months to come. Capriati, for anyone who missed the biggest media hoopla since the Donald Trump divorce scandal, is a sturdily built 5-ft. 6 1/2-in. 13-year-old with nerve, force and a powerful backhand -- plus a business...