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Compers don’t really flock to the magazine for the chance to write about beer brewing competitions. It’s co-comp director Amelia’s sexy vivacity that lures them in. (They can tell just from the emails.) When she’s famous, we’ll be saying we knew her in the days of Starbucks addiction and incontinent rabbits at Australian Vogue...
...Libs is a game for people who don’t like to comp things! It can be played by one, two, three, 40 or none of your closest friends...
...selection process was rigorous, according to Presser, who administered the writers’ comp and oversaw the actors’ auditions...
...interested writers were first asked to submit a page-long original character sketch and to write a dialogue involving that character. The second round of the comp involved writing a dramatic climax for a long-term storyline given to them by Presser and the associate producers. Ultimately, the pool was narrowed down to a cohesive, diversely talented staff of 11 writers...
After spending a lifetime being evaluated and measured up against their peers, too many Harvard students take a perverse delight in switching roles—being handed the keys to the door. Final club punch pageants, The Crimson executive “Turkey Shoot,” comp parties at a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine: all of these events are about who gets in and who gets left out. In the end, it hardly seems to matter what you’re joining to do in the first...