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...catch the subway-the kind you see all the time on the Red Line, the ones who, hearing any noise from the subway tunnel-closing doors or turning wheels or the wheezing sound of rushing air-dash down the steps, sure that they will miss the train. My caller was stopping already, before he had even paid for his token, to look at the map and decide how to get where he was going...
...WANT NEATNESS or creative disorder?" the caller wants to know. "Do I want an even balance of social and academic activities or a lively social center?" I asked for two roommates and got five. My compromise in the cleanliness category meant a floor littered with old newspapers and a pizza that sat in a corner all year next to a foot-high stack of records out of their jackets. If we had not been disorderly in such a creative way, maybe we would have had room for a lively social center...
...There is something to be said," someone told me a couple weeks ago, "for living your entire early adult life within a quarter mile radius." My caller is very excited about going to school in Boston. He wants to know what the city is like...
...year or so from now, my caller will know enough to stop asking these questions--or at least enough not to pay much attention to the answers. By next January's reading period, he will be learning to question the answers, and he will wonder, when he seeks advice, whether to trust his Salada teabag or his Bazooka fortune or the six fortunes in his Hong Kong fortune cookie...
Bruce Dahltorp, a 46-year-old financial consultant, was relaxing in his Geneva, Ill., home one Friday evening, when the executive recruiter phoned. Would Dahltorp consider a job as president of a Midwestern bank? the caller wanted to know. That unexpected opportunity was too good to refuse. Dahltorp could fulfill a long-standing desire to run a bank and also boost his six-figure pay by more than one-third. He soon took...