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...appreciation for the traditional female attributes in the office is just about the only thing that DiSesa's book has in common with The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career into Gear, by Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio (Broadway). With its comparatively prim language and earnest encouragements, The Girl's Guide is like chick-lit for M.B.A.s: "You've figured out where you are. And realized that you're not satisfied. Of course, you're not. Ambitious girls never are." This book is pitched to a younger audience than DiSesa's, which speaks to the more seasoned and frustrated...
...you’ll spend 48 minutes inside the head of an intelligent rambler with a penchant for rhyming and a short attention span. With his tongue lodged firmly in his cheek, Green’s latest effort is neither earth-shattering nor disappointing. Green, whose career plodded steadily forward after he entered the anti-folk scene in 1998, has recently garnered a lot of face time because of his appearance on the “Juno” soundtrack with former Moldy Peaches bandmate Kimya Dawson. Green’s latest solo album may deliver a sarcastic shock...
...Harvard, Dawson set the Ivy League record for career rushing yards (4,841), career rushing touchdowns (60), career touchdowns (66), career points (398), and career all-purpose yards (6,138). But it takes more than gaudy stats to become an NFL athlete...
...Brown’s football team just recently demonstrated that NFL teams don’t take players based solely on their Ivy League performance. In the 2006 draft, the Bears running back, Nick Hartigan, who always kept Harvard-Brown contests close and finished his collegiate career with 2,761 yards, 33 TDs and fifth in the nation in scoring (10.2 points per game), went undrafted...
...book that I could write right now. I think, if you’re honest, that you don’t really get to choose your subject.THC: Your characters openly and earnestly engage with both politics and literature, much as you’ve done throughout your career. What sort of role do you see your book—or literature and art more broadly—playing in our contemporary world?KG: Ideally, words succeed, always succeed. I think if anything right now we have a problem with literature being too happy being just literature and too happy playing...