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"These shootings are not about immigration politics," says Eva Ahlgren, the head of the Rosengård city district.
Sweden: Malmö's immigrants adjust to life in gunman's sights Lars Eriksen 2010
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Göran Ahlgren, docent organisk kemi, general secretary of the Stockholm Initiative, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden
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Another great book in the SF vein is Discipline by Paco Ahlgren: time travel, multiple universes, and a mind-manipulation device called "The Bell" all woven into a classic good vs. evil framework make for a thrilling read!
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Cole, too, comes off like a whiny little bitch sometimes because his mentors feel, at moments, that he is not yet ready for new concepts, which would be fine except one gets the impression Ahlgren is simply holding his cards just yet, which makes Cole reader-proxy.
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"Students have the idea that if they throw more darts at the board, their chances go up," says Carl Ahlgren, the director of college counseling at the Gilman School, a private boys 'school in Baltimore.
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Ahlgren says that in his experience exactly the opposite is true: the more careful and deliberate students are about choosing where to apply, the more likely they are to get in.
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At his previous school, University Liggett, in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, Ahlgren ran a small study correlating the number of applications a student filed with overall admission success.
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"Students have the idea that if they throw more darts at the board, their chances go up," says Carl Ahlgren, the director of college counseling at the Gilman School, a private boys 'school in Baltimore.
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Ahlgren says that in his experience exactly the opposite is true: the more careful and deliberate students are about choosing where to apply, the more likely they are to get in.
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The likely reason, Ahlgren said, is that the decision to fill out "that twelfth or fifteenth application" often "goes hand in hand with a quality of indifference, almost cynicism, about the applications" — and colleges notice.
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