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...interview report differs substantially from the other information in a student's file, the admissions committee may disregard it. If the candidate was nervous or too quiet and reserved to come across well, Reardon said, "there is no way we are going to put a lot of concern on a 20-minute talk...
...turned the riverbank into a gigantic parking lot. Then Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the riverside, setting vehicles alight in a fire that 24 hours later was still raging. In the end, the 50,000 who had crossed the river pushed on to the sea in reckless disregard of the danger from the Communists. But continued sniping on the road by the Viet Cong made it impossible for more than 100,000 others to cross the Song...
...must be clear by now, Russell is hardly interested in traditional narrative film making. He is not concerned with the usual standards of good taste either, except to mock and outrage them. His biographies of artists (Song of Summer, The Music Lovers, Savage Messiah) display a sumptuously cavalier disregard for facts. It is fantasy that matters to Russell, fantasy most often on a highly charged, even colossal order. In comparison with such fever dreams as The Devils, Tommy is fairly restrained stuff, including sequences that are among the best work Russell has ever done...
Within the Administration, Simon's hard-driving ways and disregard of bureaucratic protocol have always made him more enemies than friends. In recent policy debates he has pushed his views too stridently, and his clout is visibly diminishing...
...federal prosecutor, Thomas F. McBride, did not entirely agree, arguing in court that Stans either "knew or acted in reckless disregard of the corporate origin" of the illegal funds he had raised. Federal Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. observed that this sounded much like "willfulness" to him. And while Stans may not have known how the illicit money was to be used, the loose treatment of huge amounts of cash helped make Watergate possible...