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...drama, a project Rosow describes as ieMy So Called Lifei meets the movie, eKids,ii focuses on the problems of self-doubt facing a young, female painter, Alex. As a character whose lack of image had made her remain outside the mainstream high school community, Alex is taken aback when the popular, iparty girls,i at her Los Angeles high school attempt to integrate her into their social strata. Thrown into the milieu is Sage, Alexis best friend, a savvy nymphomaniac, and Curtis, the cute new boy who has just left Colorado to escape the haunting memory of his fatheris...
...think Hollywood is really taken aback by Harvard and its programs,i Rosow said as she tucked a blonde wisp of hair behind her ear. iYou can succeed in this industry without being a born writer or educated in the art of producing. Itis just important that youire knowledgeable about a lot of little things and have big ideas that you can bring to life. I think we really get that drive to success and creativity at Harvard.i...
...example, while he was teaching at Harvard, Pottenger says, one day he greeted a student by name in the hall, and she was taken aback and said it was the first time in her three years at the school a professor had said 'hello' or even acknowledged her existence...
...read with great fascination your feature articles on the various Undergraduate Council presidential candidates, and I was taken aback by what seems a most noticeable difference in the quality of reportage devoted to the different campaigns. It is clear that, while the teams writing about Darling-Patel and Plants-Wikler were quite thorough in their investigations, the articles devoted to the other two-person teams were sorely lacking...
Seton, who says he has spent a year trying to build healthy relationships within the administration, was taken aback--and quickly devised a rebuttal...