Word: complexities
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...high school friends calls it the "Harvard complex"--the idea that, because we're at Harvard we must "amount to something" and be "important." What puzzles my high school friend and me is why this complex is so focused on careers. In one of my lectures last week, a professor asked us if we saw anybody here present the idea of a family as a real option after graduation. And I really don't think we do, or at least I have yet to meet someone who does...
...disinterest. And, of course, childish envy must also, reluctantly, be admitted. But along with modesty and envy, a more important reason explains our resistance to place the accomplished on a pedestal. Simply, it is nearly impossible to determine who the Big Men on Campus are in a fragmented, complex community like ours...
...against creatures more ferocious than those that inhabited Farmer Hoggett's essentially benign barnyard. Or maybe it was the powers of their special-effects wizardry that they wanted to strut, for the cast members of Babe: Pig in the City are larger, busier and--shall we say?--more emotionally complex than their predecessors. They are mostly residents of the Flealands Hotel, a flophouse in a hellish--well, anyway, heckish--imaginary metropolis where Babe and Mrs. Hoggett (Magda Szubanski) are obliged to take refuge when a personal appearance Babe was supposed to make goes awry...
...purveys many products that would have been unimaginable to its founder, a few of which (the odd TV show, the occasional R movie) might even have been anathemas to him. Not that one sees him pondering long over such trifles, as his company fulfills the great commercial destiny this complex and darkly driven man always dreamed...
...hour with benefits or $8.64 without -- higher than the state minimum of $5.75. Now, in an effort that may be duplicated in other cities, pro-labor officials are refusing subsidies to developers who want to build big projects, including the Staples sports arena and a Hollywood theater-and-hotel complex, unless they agree to pay the higher wage to their waiters, janitors, hot-dog vendors and others. Last week even GOP mayor Richard Riordan, seeking a $12 billion airport expansion, gave in to pressure from a labor-clergy alliance and extended the living wage to 2,500 airport bag checkers...