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Most students choose a medical school for its prestige or price tag. I chose one where I wouldn't be the only student born before 1970. Two years ago, at 32, I traded in my Hollywood executive's black blazer for blue hospital scrubs at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Thirty-two may seem young, but in medical education, which can last more than a decade, it's often considered over the hill...
...meeting, which began with a humorous imitation of President Clinton by council treasurer Justin A. Barkley '02--who wore a blazer, dyed gray hair and heart-covered boxers--turned into a wide-ranging and sometimes acrimonious debate over how to combat hate on campus...
...HUPD maintains a fleet of around 10 marked Ford Crown Victoria patrol cars and one Chevrolet Blazer, four unmarked cars, one prisoner transport van, two motorcycles and a handful of bicycles...
...years ago, when the Ford Explorer was about to make its debut, Ford discovered it had a problem: In internal tests, the Explorer notched a worse rollover rate than rival Chevy's Blazer, and worse even than - gasp - its own notoriously tipsy Bronco II. The Explorer "must at least be equivalent to the [Bronco II] in these maneuvers to be considered acceptable for production," a Ford engineer wrote in a 1989 memo. Something had to be done; this was to be a family...
...ethnic angle. This meant that he had to pose as a Jew. After a day of running around in his Jewish pose, complete with Yiddishisms and a rabbinical demeanor, he'd come home each night to his manse, slip on a pair of plaid pants and a kelly blazer and announce: "Jeezus, these people. Gawd, I have to wash my hands.... I mean, they're sooooo pushy. Lovey, could you pour me a Pimm's Cup?" Lieberman's wife, Hadassah, I "revealed" was actually named... Muffy. As a Jew, I figured I had the ethnic entitlement that allowed...