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...juice and a bowl of cereal when you can have juice, cereal, scrambled eggs, syrup-saturated pancakes and an oatmeal muffin for the same price and just a bit more effort? At dinner, why settle for pasta and a salad when you can have pasta, salad, chicken, garlic bread, pie and often less-than-frozen yogurt? And we wonder why we no longer fit into those skin-tight pants...
...black lace, Dorothea Lange's inevitable Migrant Mother of 1936 - and some less familiar examples by big names. Everybody has seen Edward Weston's nudes, but probably not the one here, from 1927, which turns a pair of legs, tightly folded at the knees, into nestled loaves of Italian bread...
...never hurt either. Bowdoin requires a second, shorter essay on an influential teacher. Most students opt for a boiler-plate hymn to the hardest teacher in school. But a rare description of a teacher who "was big, but not overweight...like you could trust her to provide you with bread and beef through the winter" got the committee laughing. And the essay's touching conclusion--"she taught me how to improve from a mistake and still like myself"--sent them straight for the ADMIT stamp. Otherwise, the student's B record would not have...
...never hurts either. Bowdoin requires a second, shorter essay on an influential teacher. Most students opt for a boiler-plate hymn to the hardest teacher in school. But a rare description of a teacher who "was big, but not overweight ... like you could trust her to provide you with bread and beef through the winter" got the committee laughing. And the essay's touching conclusion - "she taught me how to improve from a mistake and still like myself" - sent them straight for the admit stamp. Otherwise, the student's B record would not have...
...legends of Honest Abe and the implacable T.R., we are taught to revere, above all else, the character of our leaders. Indeed, character is that thing which we most want them to give us. Our would-be leaders, in turn, do not tend to make promises so much of bread but of brilliance, bravado, and derring-do. They, in short, don't promise anything as much as they promise themselves...