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...imagine how difficult that is," says one proctor of several years. "Some people write the names on a piece of paper. Sometimes you can do it by sight. In the case of one party last year, students were quietly slipping down the fire escape. It's chaos. It's a difficult expectation...
...will of 19th century munitions maker Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), it was as much an attempt to redeem the reputation of its founder--best known in his day as the inventor of dynamite--as to award the accomplishments of its recipients. Nobel, a pacifist who liked to write poetry, had intended his explosive to be used mostly for peaceful purposes and was dismayed that it became so powerful an instrument of war. In 1888 a French newspaper--thinking it was Alfred and not his brother who had passed on--ran his obituary under the cutting headline "Le marchand...
...Beatles Anthology is billed as the Beatles' own "permanent written record." Essentially, it is an attempt by the surviving Beatles--Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr--and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono to write the story of the band before somebody else writes it for them...
...Myth 5 If a teacher says he'll write a rec, it will be a good...
...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...