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...shops were a financial boon for the University, that would be one thing. But "the arcade has not been the financial success that was originally anticipated," said HPRE Director of University and Commercial Properties Scott Levitan...
...statuettes keep piling up, no doubt a boon to the electroplating industry. For viewers who think the Oscars are too elitist, there's the People's Choice Awards, chosen by a Gallup poll of moviegoers. For those who find the Oscars too mainstream, there's the Independent Spirit Awards, recognizing films made outside the studio system. The Screen Actors Guild has its own televised awards show, and so does the Blockbuster video/music chain. There are awards for sports stars (the ESPYS), for outstanding African Americans (the Essence Awards) and for well-dressed rock musicians (VH1's Fashion & Music Awards). There...
Evans, 33, a former advertising executive in Salt Lake City, Utah, wrote the story in 1992 as a gift for his two daughters. A devout Mormon, he credits divine guidance at 4 a.m. for revealing the book's structure (a boon that should make him the envy of the entire writing community), and his work does bear a resemblance to the Christian fiction that has been a flourishing publishing genre in the past few years. In the book Richard, a young Salt Lake City man, and his wife move in with Mary, a luminous and wealthy old woman, who houses...
Drinking nightly, for example, is a boon to your interpersonal relationship skills. Not only will this hobby shine on your resume, but it will ensure you success with women. And guess what? Sex is on your terms. In your house. She comes in the side door and exits at your whim. And she isn't even a Cliffie...
Moreover, the assertion that minority students receive a "totally free ride" is equally ad hominem and groundless in fact. Many minority students arrive at Harvard having already secured outside funding. Having successfully competed for and won national competitions, these students, like other fellowship winners, are a financial boon to their departments as well as to the University. Had Mansfield bothered to inquire which minority students received Harvard funding and which students had outside sources, he would have been forced to acknowledge the groundlessness of this generalization. Based on hasty generalizations and factual inaccuracies, Mansfield's claims are neither interested...