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Emotional Gate-Keeping
This week is admitted student weekend across many campuses and I’ve been thinking about the relationship between Admissions and the...
Arts Priority
Recently at a program presented by the Long Island Arts Alliance, New York State Education Commissioner David Steiner made an...
Short e-Books: 'Great Stagnation' and 'Lifted'
Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History,Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel...
Social web info overload: Summify may provide balance
According to Twitter, I have 3,200 favorites, my Google Reader account lists 1,000+ unread items and I have more than...
Rites of Passagio
In singing, we differentiate between the "head voice" and the "chest voice." The chest voice is, for most of us...
Guest Book Review: 'On Pain of Speech'
On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant , by Dina Al-Kassim. University of California...
Sell Yourself
Promoting your skills in the business world is a matter of self-marketing, not self-denial, writes Jessica Quillin.
Missed Opportunity
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights should have pursued its inquiry into alleged bias against female applicants to college, writes Richard Whitmire.