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...alumni panelists boasted a diverse array of undergraduate concentrations, interests, and professional background??ranging from public service to law—but they offered similar advice for students seeking to enter the job market...
Real time: 1:17 p.m. I’m eating lunch in the 20th-floor break room of the insurance company where I worked over January. “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” is on the TV in the background??or maybe the local news if more people are paying attention—and I’m savoring my peanut butter sandwich and the next 43 minutes away from my cubicle...
Likewise, the corrosive twangs behind “I Wouldn’t Need You” overpower its vocals. In this particular ill-advised attempt to create a fusion of rock and jazz—platitudes thrown somewhat haphazardly over an oddly insistent and plodding background??Jones incorporates several upsetting and nonsensical chords at the song’s climax...
...afterlife. In a presentation scene, Djehutynakt sits before a crowd of gifts, including jars, birds with interlocking heads, gazelle-like creatures, and even an eviscerated ox. The painting is sophisticated—the governors’ legs are colored in two different shades of red to create foreground and background??and the detail is impressive...
...associated with a middle or low income background??that isn’t a problem for me. I’m not ashamed of it, I’m proud. Some people ask, ‘you take pride in cleaning toilets?’ Well actually, I do,” Sandler says. “If you can do this well that’s a model for other things in your life...