The City University of New York is planning on raising math and English requirements for 2008 freshman at 11 colleges. CUNY's chancellor, Matthew Goldstein, told the NY Times, "We are very serious in taking a group of our institutions and placing them in the top segment of universities and colleges. This is the kind of profile we want for our students." more ›

Jennifer Lynn, 23. I work as a Personal Chef and in the kitchen of Chef Daniel Boulud's restaurant, Daniel. As a Personal Chef, I prepare six- to nine-course tastings for up to 12 guests in the homes of my clients. I grew up all around the States, but spent most of my time in Orlando. I've lived in the Lower East Side for the last few years, and I think I'll be in New York forever. more ›

, by Ayelet Waldman. Let’s put aside the actual book for a minute and talk about the author. Now, it’s somewhat fashionable to dislike Ayelet Waldman, and I confess I am no exception. I’m not talking about her as a novelist, because this is the first book of hers that I’ve read. No, I based my dislike – as did, I’m sure, thousands of her other detractors – on the article she wrote about being madly in love with her husband almost to the exclusion of everyone else in her life. Her husband being, as the book jacket so archly points out, “the novelist Michael Chabon”. A lot of people disliked the tone of the article – seemingly both callous and crowing but above all, too much information with not enough widespread applicability to its readers’ lives. At least, those are the reasons I disliked it. more ›

Perhaps I'm a sucker, but I tend to buy jeans too long for me and then end more ›

Candice Waldron, TV Producer more ›

Sexual favors for drugs during a downward spiral? Okay, that seems par for the course. But dragging Kermit the Frog into this? For shame, Jayson Blair! more ›