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Given the profound effect that a job interview has on your entire life, there are a few things that you should keep in mind while going through the process. First and foremost, always make sure to make a good initial impression on your interviewer. If that is too hard for you, then at the very least try not to make a complete ass of yourself. One time I approached the conference room with my interviewer, only to spend 30 seconds pushing on the door while the word “PULL” stared us both in the face...
...helped establish the Institute. With its origins in Radcliffe College, women’s studies and gender-related research still make up an important part of the work done at the Institute. The Schlesinger Library, which according to the Institute’s website is “the foremost library on the history of women in the United States,” remains a crucial component of Radcliffe today. But the Institute does not focus solely on women’s studies, and plays home to fellows from fields as diverse as fiction, physics, and electrical engineering...
...Detention House, where I was to remain for 6 1/2 years, was the foremost detention house for political prisoners in Shanghai. It was an old establishment where the Kuomintang had once imprisoned Communists. The black Jeep drove through the main gate, along a drive lined by willow trees, then through another gate. I was undressed, searched, photographed, fingerprinted. ''While you are here, you will be known by a number,'' the man at the entry desk said. ''You'll no longer use your name, not even to the guards. Your number is 1806.'' I was taken out through another gate...
Neil Simon is America's foremost stage comedist, the theatrical equivalent of Woody Allen in the movies. Even in his weakest plays that gift of laughter has never faltered, and it is in full flower in his trilogy. But for all its exuberant humor, Broadway Bound is a comedy only in the sense that Chekhov meant Uncle Vanya to be seen as a comedy. Its subjects include the dissolution of two marriages, the estrangements of a father from a daughter and of another father from his sons, the terminal cancer of one offstage character and the accidental death of another...
...there have been more interpretations than the Rosetta Stone?at age two. Neil was playing with a toy stethoscope, and Danny burst out, "This kid is gonna be a doctor." As Neil grew up, Danny enthusiastically envisioned him as America's greatest baseball player and, later, the world's foremost comic genius. He backed up this boosterism with hard work: Danny dragged Neil into writing. Both brothers say that without Danny's coaching, the shy and initially indolent Neil would never have developed the craft...