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...questions, but inevitably lets you know the "meeting" is over by either picking up documents to read or turning completely around to read e-mails on his PC ... Ironic how such "micro" inequities have such a HUGE demoralizing effect on employee morale. I always trudge away from his desk totally disgusted...
Dear Molly, My roommate keeps borrowing my stuff without asking. At first it was just movies and books, but I saw her wearing one of my shirts out last weekend before I had even worn it. I also think she may have taken money off of my desk. Suggestions? —Annoyed in Adams Dear Annoyed, Do you like this roommate, independent of her possible kleptomania? If you do like her and would like to live with her in the future, feel free to skip down to the third paragraph. If her lax definition of “borrowing?...
...only her own battalion, but the entire army. We’re fighting under this flag, she thinks, and I am holding it, holding it for everyone else to see. Even out of uniform, sitting in her pristine pink room, she feels the same way. She is at her desk working on a paper, a radio broadcast of a basketball game playing in the background. Last year, she wouldn’t have noticed if the “Star Spangled Banner” came on. Now, she stops what she is doing, sits completely still in her chair...
...through the carefully directed actions of his characters. The film’s settings seem almost drawn onto the screen, taken directly out of a picture book. Bandini’s apartment, in particular—with only a barren palm tree visible through the window and a small desk and dirty bed—looks as though it was furnished for a live audience watching the opening scene of a play. Even with Towne’s substantial creativity, “Ask the Dust” would have crashed and burned without the solid performances of Hayek...
...honor, and excellence. There are 15 cadets from different colleges, as well as an MIT pre-frosh applying for an ROTC scholarship. Four of the cadets are women, and it appears to be a racially diverse crew. Captain Brian Sullivan, who teaches the cadets military science, sits on a desk and sips coffee as he clicks through slides of weapons: M-4s, night vision devices, different kinds of grenades. “Look through the optical device here...you basically can’t miss if you put the red dot on the target,” he says...