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...interviewer have a common friend, or share a common interest, is golden. You could have no idea how to spell "investment bank," but if you're both amateur pilots, or your fathers went to the same law school, by golly, you're in. Your interviewer becomes your fiercest defender during the firm's decision-making process, and if he's got pull--again, it's who you know--you've got yourself...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Connections Help in Senior Recruiting | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

Although it is still early in the season, both teams are preparing for winter play, when they will meet their fiercest competition. The men will play their toughest opponents in February; the women will take on Williams and Princeton in January...

Author: By Maureen B. Shannon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Squash Teams Both Sweep Brown, 9-0 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Billy Crudup), the youngest survivor of a vanishing tribe, is gored by a demon boar that is a protector of the great forest. His wound will kill him if he can't solve the mystery of his curse. He meets Eboshi (Minnie Driver), ruler of Iron Town, and her fiercest foe, San (Claire Danes), or Mononoke, which means spirit. They want to use him or escape him, as the forest gods and demons rise for a showdown that everyone is fated to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazing Anime | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...religion from their schools," says Van Biema. "But to some extent the evangelicals who've been active on the subject of religion in schools have a point, that administrators have been overreactive in keeping any mention of religion out of the classroom." The willingness of some of the fiercest opponents and proponents of religion in schools to sign on to this compromise could ease tensions among school districts over letting the Bible into the classroom. Which means the Cliff's Notes on Genesis can't be far behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Book End Debate Over Religion in Schools? | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

...film. Its static compositions by Conrad Hall are overloaded with vibrant colors and symmetries that make you almost want to cry. On the surface, Mendes has packed a great deal into this movie, and he maneuvers like a pro through its quicksilver shifts in tone -- from blackest comedy to fiercest tenderness and all the bathos in between. It feels like there is a great deal here, and it's presented with extraordinary ease. I found my reactions changing even as I watched the film unfold. It works like lightning: it never strikes the same chord twice...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Name of the Rose | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

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