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...over-dressed seniors at worst are only passively annoying, though. The students who ask stupid questions after the initial presentation are actively bothersome. Whoever said that the only dumb question is the one that isn't asked certainly didn't have to sit through one of these informational meetings. Some students simply ask vague questions which have been answered dozens of times before, in the firm's presentation and its literature, such as "What makes your firm different from others?" This is the ubiquitous opening question and elicits the most predictably banal response...
...next time someone calls a football player a dumb jock, ask him what a 35 Veer Right is. Then tell an offensive lineman what he just said...
...upset. None of them are going to be passed over for those highly competitive jobs in investment banking and consulting because Harvard is now ranked third. You won't be rejected by a top graduate school because of the U.S. News list. And if prospective students are dumb enough to pick a college based on its rank in a magazine, we don't need them here anyway. Students at Harvard and other schools should eat their pride, stop complaining and concentrate on their educations...
...Ferguson from just around the block--/ (I can't stand this crock of schlock!)/ The Town Police make sure you never see yourself a bum./ The Litter Agents sweep Offstage the smallest crumb./ The cleanliness can numb you; where'd they stash away the scum?/ We're not dumb; it's in the slum...
...wrong I was." Making street rounds, Sandra Davis, founder of the mediation service Mothers Against Gang Wars, has begun showing Williams' books to gang members. "I almost have to get physical with them to get the books back," she says. But some publishing professionals are less impressed. "These books dumb down the issue so much that I don't think they respect the situation as it really is," says Roger Sutton, editor in chief of the Horn Book Magazine in Boston. "Kids know that life is more complex than these books would have you believe." And Sergeant Wes McBride...