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...setbacks have not deterred her. On a recent blustery night, she and five of her closest girlfriends, dressed in unseasonable short sleeves, downed cocktails and took shots of "buttery nipples," a syrupy blend of butterscotch schnapps and Baileys Irish Cream. It was a Tuesday during midterm exams, but they closed down the bar anyway. "You don't want to be that dumb girly girl who looks wasted and can't hold her liquor. I know it's juvenile, but I've had boys comment how impressed they are at the amount of alcohol I've consumed," Diebold explains...
...pile to get through. To claim that the results of this process provide some self-evidently fair and complete measure of potential to excel at university, or in life, is just silly. Many American colleges happily acknowledge that once applicants reach a certain threshold of academic ability, they blend many attributes to obtain a class: geographic and racial variety, athletic and artistic ability, whether Mom or Dad is an alum. That last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind. In 20 years or 50, loyalty...
TIME: You grew up in London's Jewish East End, which produced great theaterfolk from Harold Pinter to Lionel Bart. What did it teach you? GOODMAN: There was a defined Jewish community there, but we were anxious to blend in - which is why Jews gave their children good English names like Henry. I did my first musical at the age of 16, and there were lots of different communities in it. All those influences were just as important as studying Stanislavsky at RADA [Royal Academy of Dramatic...
...almost precise-than a straightforward coming-of-age tale. To set the chimerical tone, Mitchell employs an intriguing narrative technique: when Miyake interacts with other characters, we "hear" the soliloquies of his thoughts, as well as the spoken dialogue. And every once in a while, the two seem to blend together, leaving the reader guessing for pages...
...Islamist movement,” lucidly explaining how it has fared within the political history of the Muslim world. According to Kepel, this movement began in the 1930s when political parties began espousing a vision of a modernity which entailed a “complete and total blend of society, state, culture, and religion, a blend with which everything began and ended.” Kepel’s thesis is that it was this idealogy of cultural, religious and moral isolation that became a breeding ground for jihad...