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This bias should come as no surprise, given the magazine's format: Most professions outside the world of finance simply do not lend themselves to tips on how to get in on the job market.("It's just a matter of pounding the pavement and convincing the boss that you want that positional," says post Allen Ginsberg...
...chasing a dream, and being chased by two New York thugs The problems arise when Schmaltz and Voight try to justify their hackneyed plot by throwing in a number of complex issues: illusion, self-destruction, friendship, loyalty, and fatherhood. And they try to squeeze all this into a comedy format. As a result, none of these admittedly interesting themes is explored fully, nor are they ever taken seriously enough either to touch the audience or to evoke laughter...
...aviator glasses, army boots and an earplug has in fact been listening to accordion music, of all things--startles the audience out of its complacency. One of the nicest things about Diva is its ability to generate goose-pimpling suspense while laughing, just a little, at the classical suspense format it follows...
Ward and others said they hoped the guide, which had evolved from an independent-study project, would fill a long-standing vacuum of necessary information as well as encouraging Blacks to apply to a greater range of schools. The format for the book seemed as simple and well-intentioned as the concept behind it: Each of the 114 schools included in the book would have a similar statistical breakdown revealing, for example, the number of tenured Black faculty members and percentage of Blacks receiving financial aid. A narrative summary of each school based on a dean's questionnaire and about...
Epps, in his April letter to Beckham and in subsequent interviews with the Crimson, focused solely on what he called the "too subjective" questions in explaining Harvard's position. Epps feared that Harvard's unique race relations policy might be put "in a very bad light" under the established format. Nevertheless, the dean left the door open for possible future contribution to the guide, pending a change in the information-gathering approach to one allowing for broader explanation...