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...applicant pool triple from the usual 5,000 to a whopping 14,000, all vying for only 2,000 positions. The sudden increase is in part attributable to the bad economy and rough job market. But TFA teacher Ajarae D. Johnson ’02 believes that the boom relates to the events surrounding 9/11: “People want to do something meaningful with their lives, and to give back [to the community...
...storytelling as ‘casting spells.’ Kottke the Magician’s performance at Sanders featured a story about a beach in Nashville, Tennessee that could never exist, friends being hit in the street by poultry trucks and pizza delivery-songwriters named Frisbee Boom Boom Fuller who penned the third track on the album, “From Pizza Towers to Defeat...
...featuring Kyono, the lead singer for the popular metal band The Mad Capsule Markets, is a clubland smash. (The band also scored the PlayStation 2 shooter game, Rez.) With a catalog of over 20 albums and mix CDs, Tsuyoshi, whose return to Tokyo in 2000 triggered a nationwide trance boom, is that peculiar millennial superstar: the bankable DJ. Last month, he even launched his own Tokio Drome clothing line (named after his monthly Tokyo parties...
...pleasing seepage from art to life, the actors enthusiastically plan a group outing to a jazz club one Friday during a break in rehearsal. As the music fades from the tinny portable boom box at the end of a particularly exhilarating run-through, Starr exclaims: “Let’s all go listen to jazz!” It sounds like a perfect plan...
Enron. Arthur Andersen. Dynegy. ImClone. Global Crossing. A lot hashappened in the business world since we last checked in with Dilbert. The beleaguered, bespectacled office worker was oppressed during the downsizing era. He "was feeling his oats a little bit" during the dotcom boom and "became a little more insolent and sarcastic at work," in the words of his creator, Scott Adams. Now, says Adams, Dilbert has "reached a depth of cynicism." That cynicism is on full display in the first new Dilbert book to appear in four years: Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel, about to be published...