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...celebrities," he says. "Five or six years ago, reality TV was a bad word." Now it's CPR for a dying career, a way for forgotten celebrities to remind the world that they exist and for child stars to reintroduce themselves as grownups. Not that any celebrity will admit to such motives. On one Star Dates, Kim Fields--Tootie from The Facts of Life--says of her two blind dates, "If they call me Tootie, they're out of here." But by her second date, she seems miffed that her beau says he has seen only one episode of Facts...
...particular, has a less than laudable historical relationship with women. By 1930 most major law schools in America had begun to admit women, but Harvard waited until 1950 before it opened its doors to the first 14 female law students. According to HLS’s 2001 data, of the 161 full professors at the law school, only 39 are women. In a July interview with The New York Times, Claire Van Ummersen, director of the office of women in higher education at the American Council on Education, said that the increasing numbers of women in college leadership have brought...
...planning to be a bit more cautious. We’ll probably make fewer offers initially...take a bit stronger LSAT, a bit stronger academic record. But I don’t necessarily think they’ll be a dramatic difference in who we’ll admit...
...winners in the post-bubble era. That we were no longer (or not yet) living in Steve Case's world of set-top universes and double-digit growth rates has been (painfully) obvious for two years. But somehow, it seemed important that Case, in deed if not in word, admit...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...