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...further complicate matters, HBS’s inexplicably rigid reaction—it has issued a blanket rejection of all applicants who accessed the unpublished decisions website—leaves no room for the possibility that the individuals accessing the decisions page were not the applicants themselves. Clark has stated that applicants should be responsible for their passwords, implying that HBS would not consider cases in which curious spouses, siblings, or other people accessed decision websites. Stanford Graduate School of Business’s policy of dealing with applicants on a case-by-case basis is more reasonable and flexible...
Egon Schiele’s “Sleeping Figure with a Blanket,” with its watercolor browns and dreamsicle oranges, employs less inviting colors than the Kokoschka lithographs but is no less visually-stimulating. As is the case with several of the Klimt sketches, Schiele intentionally waffles on the orientation of the work, in part by signing the piece twice, once to indicate that the piece is meant to be viewed as a portrait and again, indicating a landscape...
...make the case, the Administration is launching a two-month talk-a-thon. Treasury Secretary John Snow and other senior Bush officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, will blanket the country for sixty stops in sixty days. The White House is trying to copy Bush's 2004 campaign playbook, flying over the national media and talking directly to local papers and television stations. The Republican National Committee has called up the grass roots, placing more then 250,000 phone calls supporting the President's plan and e-mailing 100,000 Republican activists. ?March and April are about educating America,? says...
...late-afternoon coffee or wine. For a casual truffle dinner, I'm fond of La Liberia, which serves the homey food of the region and is one of the few places in the entire region where you can order a salad as well as typical risotto Piedmontese with a blanket of truffle shavings...
...world beset by political strife, these young ambassadors make politics personal. A French exchange student lived with Gail and Richard Marshall, 54 and 56, editors at the Fresno Bee, during the "freedom fries" period of Franco-American relations. When the girl's brother called, spewing blanket attacks on Americans, the young diplomat retorted, "I'm here. I know what Americans are thinking and saying...