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When Dec. 10 rolled around, I joined the large majority of my class in dropping off a batch of resumes at the Office of Career Services. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I knew I wanted to go to graduate school in the next few years but certainly not right away. I have led a fairly academic existence over the past three years (I'm a philosophy concentrator), and surely the fresh air of the "real world" would do my burnt-out mind some good. As I had heard through the grapevine, consulting companies have a secret...
...successful Broadway run last season; I'm Still Here...Damn It!, Sandra Bernhard's monologue-plus-music, which has just opened on Broadway after a hit engagement downtown; and De La Guarda, a performance troupe from Argentina that has become a hot off-Broadway attraction. Joining them are a batch of new plays making a determined effort to attract the long-neglected Gen Xers...
...Look for standardized preparations so you know you're getting the same product with each new bottle you buy. As any baby boomer who ever smoked more than a single joint knows, potency of herbs can vary from batch to batch. German manufacturers, though, produce identical batches of herbal remedies, as required by their law. This week the U.S. Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit organization, published the first American standards for the potency of nine herbs, including chamomile, feverfew, St. John's wort and saw palmetto. Manufacturers that adhere to those standards can add the letters NF, for national formulary, to their...
...many of them roll in Gothic gear, they just love multiple pierciing and black. I'm sure these kids will be much more receptive to your style and attitude than the Abercrombie-clad kids of Cambridge high schools. Your parents may be a little nervous about your new batch of friends, but no worries: if they kick you out, you can probably go home to Newton with one of these Pit kids. Good luck in the coming weeks and let me know what happens...
When a single day's batch of mail includes a letter from one reader who tells us how much she "adores Joel Stein's celebrity interviews" and another from a reader who thinks Stein is "the nastiest, bitchiest, sleaziest little rat ever to scoot around the halls of TIME," you know you've got one provocative writer on your hands...