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...When you're accepting a job that pays in the low 30 [thousands], your friends are signing with consulting companies, and they will get signing bonuses that are more than your first five paychecks," said Josh Gibson, a PMI finalist. "You have to swallow hard, and this makes that swallowing go down easier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K-School Loan Program Encourages Public Service | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...uses the term "finalist" differently from other programs. In this case it means that all 30 students simply have to pick the area of government they wish to work in and find a specific internship opening. In practice, PMI finalists say, this means that any finalist who wants an internship should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: K-School Loan Program Encourages Public Service | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...year award might be the more surprising, although by no means the more glamorous, of the two. With the University of Connecticut--home to one of the top women's basketball programs in the nation--as a member of the ECAC, Feaster beat out National Player of the Year finalist and UConn's all-time leading scorer Nykesha Sales for the honor...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Feaster Named Kodak All-American; Senior One of the Nation's Ten Best | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

Collected Stories, a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, is about a mentor-protege relationship between two women writers. Ruth Steiner (Deborah Kipp), a middle-aged writer living in Greenwich Village, takes on the overeager graduate student Lisa Morrison (Felicity Jones) as her assistant and tutee. Lisa is awed by the impressive Ruth, who has published a respected body of short stories and who embodies a long-standing New York literary tradition Though Lisa starts out as an insecure chatterbox, both women soon emerge as uniquely witty, charming personalities. Their interaction provides plenty of sparkling, funny dialogue, especially about...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proteges and Powerplays in Cartier's `Stories' | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...fact, many had joked that with snowboarding's induction into the Nagano Olympics, some riders would inevitably get busted for their hemp affections. In any case, most of Rebagliati's fellow Olympic snowboarders have come to his defense. "He still won the gold medal," says women's halfpipe finalist American Cara Beth Burnside. "Everyone's just furious about it. It's not affecting his performance. C'mon, they're kicking people out for cough medicine." "It's too bad," says American pro snowboarder Adam Merriman. "Pot doesn't make your muscles swell up--otherwise he'd have a reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowboard: Olympics: Dazed And Confused | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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