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...Administrative Board process is still too private. Campus justice takes place in a Star Chamber of sorts in which the actions that result in discipline are not specified, with only a few examples in the "Guide to the Administrative Board" that do not speak to many Ad Board cases. Moreover, the defendant lacks a true advocate and independent representation. The records of the proceedings are not public and students themselves are urged not to discuss their cases with community members. If the University is interested in promoting justice, then we believe that the outdated pedagogy of the English aristocracy...
Mainstream VF has undertaken a savvy comeback, revitalizing its fashion line with a gritty $150 million ad campaign and a hip new line, Lee Riveted. Riveted now accounts for about 40% of Lee's $1 billion jeans business...
...flow, everything dries. If everything dries up, the world is darkness." This is the philosophy impressed upon Okada by Mr. Honda, an elderly psychic with a weird fascination with phlegm. This analogy, intended to emphasize the nature of Okada's adventures in existential wackiness, is repeated throughout the novel ad nauseum. Although it's meant to serve to focus the book's many themes, it seems jarringly unoriginal in comparison with Murakami's cool, prose and inventive characters...
...reveal liqueurs, whiskeys and port glasses. On top sits the couple's decanter collection. This one is Danish, 1890s; these two are French, 1920s. Duke Ellington's jazz floats from the bedroom, and Sam's latest purchase, a gold jacquard smoking jacket, hangs behind the door. Caitlin, an ad copywriter for Bon Appetit, stirs the polenta, while Sam, who works with a caterer favored by fashion shoots, serves goat cheese on pizza bianca. The two have a dinner party at least three times a month. "Never pasta and red sauce," chides Samuel, who prefers stuffed trout or nicoise salad...
...Bill Gates has even pitched in with a full-page ad in Friday's Washington Post that calls fast-track authority "a vote to affirm the essential strength and vitality of the American economy...