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...William Knoedelseder. "You might say I was unionized into a corner." Mitzi got a fig leaf of satisfaction three years later, when an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the comedians, as independent contractors, could not be unionized. "In my personal view, workman's comp, benefits - those were always in the back of Mitzi's mind as something that would break the Comedy Store," says Hamilton. "I was thrilled," Mitzi says of the ruling. "It meant they never had to pay taxes to the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy at the Edge Excerpt | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...Comp Director...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Harvard Crimson proudly announces the members of its 135th Executive Board | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...talent in communications to the doors of 14 Plympton St., hoping to write editorials for The Crimson, she said in 1998. The paper’s editors at the time decided she was better suited for sports writing, but she was cut in the last round of the comp...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alums Fondly Recall Bhutto | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...Bhutto took her talent in communications to the doors of 14 Plympton St., hoping to write editorials for The Crimson, she said in 1998. The paper's editors at the time decided she was better suited for sports writing, but she was cut in the last round of the comp...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classmates Remember Strong-Willed and Patriotic Bhutto | 12/28/2007 | See Source »

...never leave their room—managed the bizarre alchemy of the Harvard application and transformed a plethora of extracurricular and curricular achievements and one or two “outstanding” essays into an acceptance letter.Yet once you get to Harvard, this sequence has another name: The Comp. Apparently, those who make it into Harvard find the process of writing extensive applications, undergoing interviews, and waiting for long periods of time so stimulating that they feel compelled to replicate it as often as possible in their daily lives. This is why most of the major extracurricular organizations...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comping Harvard | 12/10/2007 | See Source »

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