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Another challenge that Harvard students aspiring to break into entertainment face is the prospect of having to start from scratch. The lifestyle of an alum in their first years generally pales in comparison to the expectations that often become attached to a Harvard degree...
...moments when we are actually able to dedicate that level of comparison to an experience while we're having it are few and far between, Gilbert says. In the vast majority of scenarios, "the roads we don't take in life disappear a lot more quickly than we think they will...
...costly turnovers and domination on the boards allowed Cornell to creep back in. Collectively, the Big Red pulled down 35 boards, including nine offensive rebounds. Tyler, shooting 9-of-11 from the floor, achieved a double double with 19 points and 10 boards. The Crimson paled in comparison, as no one achieved double digits in rebounds. As a team, Harvard could only muster five offensive boards and 23 total rebounds.“We haven’t been very good in the interior all season,” Amaker said. “An area of concern...
...According to another GLSEN survey released in 2006, only 18% of gay and transgender students said they had been assaulted in 2005 because of their sexual orientation (only 12% - probably many of the same kids - said they had been assaulted because of the way they express their gender). By comparison, according to a 2007 Centers for Disease Control report, 18.2% of male students and 8.8% of female students reported being in a physical fight at school in the last year. Of those in the GLSEN report who had been harassed or assaulted, more than one-tenth - 13% - said the incident...
...film, the character written for him was strange, creepy, pedophilic, and—above all—not funny. Was I the only one to pick up on the moment where he actually comes on to the knocked-up, 16-year-old Juno?The supporting roles pale in comparison to Page’s portrayal of Juno.New York Times’ A.O. Scott called Page “poised [and] frighteningly talented,” and I wondered for a moment if he had accidentally misplaced a description of Denzel Washington from “American Gangster...