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Three issues dominated Maher’s brief conversations with neighbors: Cambridge public schools, rent control and the various home improvement projects that dozens of people were trying to finish on a 70-degree November...
Gephardt began his talk with a brief recounting of his upbringing as the son of a milk truck driver in St. Louis...
...which he worked his way through as a fraternity-house waiter, and his lack of visible talent at the Yale Drama School ... [Director] Harold Clurman ... informed Kazan that his only gift was excessive energy. But that, of course, is a quality too often underestimated by intellectuals ... [Kazan had] more brief affairs than he can count or recount-including one with a cheerfully complaisant Marilyn Monroe. 'Sick,' Kazan pronounces, then adds, 'People make fun of the male crisis at 45. I had that crisis all my life. I knew there was more to life than I was getting, and I didn...
...they have yet to complete. Such banal academic babysitting could all too easily be replaced by point-and-click approvals. Online, advisors could be provided with a student’s class selection, accompanied by lists of courses that the individual has completed and needs to complete. After a brief perusal, advisors could then contact those students whose schedules are suspect—young scholars entering their Junior springs without any cores under their belts or students who signed up for Mathematics 263, “Vector Bundles on Algebraic Curves” without taking any of the prerequisites...
...brief look at the composition of their advisory boards speaks to the difference between these groups: representatives of the very clothing companies the FLA supposedly monitors make up one third of its own executive committee; the WRC governing board, in contrast, is made up of labor experts, students and administrators. As a result, the WRC investigations are conducted and decisions about follow-up mediation are made independently of the brands involved. The FLA relies on the same corporations it’s supposed to monitor for much of its funding—seven out of the 11 monitors...