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...existential contemplation. Such is the palpable ferment of this small space that during reading period, it becomes a kind of book-lined red carpet, the place to See and Be Seen for the tri-colored highlighter toting and Nalgene swigging A-List (forget Chanel, the oversized waterbottle really is exam season’s must-have accessory). This glittering and perhaps rather mythical group, presumed to signpost their academic career with Detur at one end and Hoopes at the other and a whole lotta fluorescent sourcebook underlining in-between, are clearly delineated from The Rest Of Us, who find...
...decades, the government, believing lawyers were better suited to litigious Western societies than to consensus-oriented Japan, prevented the legal population from getting out of control by making the national bar exam notoriously difficult. But with courts backlogged and lawsuits mushrooming, the scarcity of lawyers is becoming dire. "There are lots of cities in Japan without a single lawyer," says Hiroshi Asako, a dean at the newly opened Waseda Law School in Tokyo. The Japanese Diet passed a bill in 2002 allowing universities to establish graduate law schools, and the "if you build it, they will come" approach is working...
...real “Adams experience” is definitely no substitute for the convenience of Adams. When it’s miserable outside, or when it’s exam time—and walking to Annenberg simply isn’t an option for Dartboard—many first-years will have to wash their board money down the drain and order takeout from the Kong. Whereas Dartboard used to frequent Adams during winter snowstorms, he’ll now be forced to seek pay-for food in bad weather. Hurt by the new policy, Dartboard feels first...
...stranger to offensive eruptions, Bernakevitch—who has notched 10 points since joining the line—has come on strong since exam break, with 18 points to his name since January...
...Force first-years to strip naked and run in circles in the midst of howling winds and Arctic temperatures —the night before the biggest exam of their lives. It builds character...