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...deeply hurtful and demoralizing for the career services staff,” in the words of HBS Senior Associate Dean Walter C. Kester. One would expect the administrators of a program for students to be slightly more thick-skinned, especially as it remains unclear whether the barb was aimed at the Business School’s Career Services Office or those who wrote its software. In any case, the correct response to such an attack is to write a letter to the editor...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Don't Threaten the Harbus | 11/15/2002 | See Source »

...comedian. Aided by a $700 gray, combed-over wig, Eli Jatspan portrays Netanyahu as an American with an obsession about money and little knowledge of Israel. "The Jewish people will not move from this land," Jatspan says, mimicking Bibi. "New York is ours..." In days past, that sort of barb might have spurred Netanyahu to vitriolic attacks on the media, leftists, secular Jews. But he seems to have mellowed. At a television studio in Herzliya recently, Jatspan bumped into Netanyahu. "You do me very well," the politician said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bibi's Back | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...that Elliot’s mouth will be made to look like it’s not pronouncing the classic put-down “penis-breath.” Instead, the pixels will be maneuvered to show the young actor, Henry Thomas, mouthing some substitute juvenile barb that Spielberg, who is now a parent, thinks will stem another tide of potty-mouthin’ E.T. acolytes...

Author: By Couper Samuleson, YARDSTICK | Title: Specious Editions | 11/27/2001 | See Source »

...have no problem with immigrants coming to America. However, they must do two things: enter legally, and learn to speak English. I want to preserve the culture of the U.S. BARB ANDRESSEN Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 2, 2001 | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...BLAIR HOUSE Poppy, Barb and Jeb will spend Inauguration week in this 19th century townhouse across the street from the White House. It's cheaper than the Four Seasons. Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inauguration Hoopla! | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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