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...Deathday, a party marking the date they quit this mortal coil. If a child's birthday leans forward--first steps, a bike, a license, the vote--a Deathday looks back at a life well lived and, for the lucky, well ended. It's a lovely spring morning as I write this, just as it was six years ago on the day I said goodbye to my father...
...they have nowhere to attend in the fall. Some waitlisted students use the time to take action. Sam Davison, a senior at Highland Park High School in Texas, was waitlisted at his first choice, Vanderbilt University. To boost his chances, Davison had a family friend who is an alumnus write a letter on his behalf. And he is in touch with a Vanderbilt admissions officer. Vanderbilt, which waitlisted 25% more applicants this year than last for a class of 1,550, lets its reps speak frankly with students about their chances. "We try to humanize this experience," says Douglas Christiansen...
...Davison Waitlisted at: Vanderbilt University Strategy: Davison, also an HP senior, had a Vandy alum write a recommendation. And he's keeping in touch with the admissions...
Meyer had not written anything much before then. Her main creative outlets were scrapbooking and making elaborate Halloween costumes. But the dream was so vivid that she absolutely had to write it down. Then she kept on writing. She wrote the entire story of the young woman and the vampire from start to finish. That story became a young-adult novel called Twilight, and she followed it up with two sequels, New Moon and Eclipse. Together the three Twilight books have sold more than 5.3 million copies in the U.S., 4 million in the past 12 months alone. They...
...Soon enough, three of Europe’s largest economies may be lobbying the ECB to effectively behave more like the American Federal Reserve. After all, since the beginning of the write-down debacle in Wall Street, renowned Great Depression scholar and Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75 has strongly favored loose economic policy (and a weaker dollar) to mitigate any economic downturn. Interest rate cuts have grabbed most headlines, but more money floating around will inevitably translate into higher inflation. It is only a matter of time...