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...former co-chairman of Northwest Airlines, spent $40 million losing to Gray Davis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1998; and the businessman Bill Simon, who campaigned unsuccessfully against Davis in 2002. All of them were seen as overconfident and underprepared, liable to self-destruct when pressed on basic policy questions. Raphael Sonenshein, a political-science professor at California State University at Fullerton, notes that self-made, first-time candidates often imagine incorrectly that politics can be made as efficient, orderly and logical as business. "While [very wealthy candidates] are usually competitive, it's not nearly as easy as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is California Sold on Governor Meg Whitman? | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...broad strokes, I take what is written in the script—it’s called the givens, what they give to you—and fill that out in terms of intellectual knowledge of what is needed in very basic terms. In other words, the basic general, rudimentary idea of what that is. Then you start filling out the emotions and the layers of the character, the heart and soul, the blood and guts, which is my favorite part. And some characters are different. I did a mini-series called “Mama Flora?...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Blair Underwood | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

Going through the basic dos and don’ts of the interview, Malisheski and Sanford stressed the importance of dressing appropriately and navigating the conversation to an applicant’s strongest attributes. Malisheski and Sanford also addressed how to handle salary negotations...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You Go, Girl | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...most famous standardized tests today. The SAT came first, founded in 1926 as the Scholastic Aptitude Test by the College Board, a nonprofit group of universities and other educational organizations. The original test lasted 90 minutes and consisted of 315 questions testing knowledge of vocabulary and basic math and even including an early iteration of the famed fill-in-the-blank analogies (e.g., blue:sky::____:grass). The test grew and by 1930 assumed its now familiar form, with separate verbal and math tests. By the end of World War II, the test was accepted by enough universities that it became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standardized Testing | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...broad strokes, I take what is written in the script—it’s called the givens, what they give to you—and fill that out in terms of intellectual knowledge of what is needed in very basic terms. In other words, the basic general, rudimentary idea of what that is. Then you start filling out the emotions and the layers of the character, the heart and soul, the blood and guts, which is my favorite part. And some characters are different. I did a mini-series called “Mama Flora?...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Blair Underwood | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

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