Word: crossing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michael D. McLung '83, executive directorof the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770, sees theall-male cast and cross dressing as a traditionwith social merit...
Because in the Year of Perpetual Polling, the public never caught the fever of the combatants. Week after week the argument was framed by the extremes: the politicians and the pundits created a cross fire in which every action was cast as either a partisan plot or an assault on justice. Yet no matter how appalling the details, the public generally kept its distance from the shouting and weighed the evidence carefully...
...film with a clear, distinct plot. Rather, it works with a story that is continually shifting gears. What begins as Max's struggle to maintain his self-identity while facing "sudden death academic probation" quickly changes into his dogged pursuit of a charming first grade teacher, Ms. Cross (Olivia Williams, free from the purgatory known as The Postman). Hoping to build an aquarium to impress her, Max enlists the help of Blume, a Rushmore benefactor whose vindictive speech against rich kids wins Max's friendship early on. Unfortunately, in a rather predictable twist, Blume also falls for Ms. Cross, which...
...presumes a mindset among professors to ignore undergraduates. The reality is that it is extraordinarily difficult to reconcile student demands with other faculty pressures. Unless one assumes, as The Crimson may have, that all professors in all departments have equal demands on their time in all directions, a simple cross-sectional comparison of departmental advising can be somewhat misleading...
After all, the recent burgeoning of the consulting sector and simultaneous cross-the-board downsizing of middle management is based upon the relative cheapness of consultant labor. Why pay a long-time company employee with a family to feed and corporate benefits to collect, when you can hire the same job out to Harvard kids at Boston Consulting Group, who will do it for less...