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After a full day of academia, your parents will be itching to find out what they can do with all their knowledge upon graduation. For a genuine telling of what students do after leaving Johnston Gate, direct them to the Office of Career Services (OCS) panel on "exploring your options" after Harvard. At this event the Director of OCS will tell parents that all Harvard students do one of two things after graduating: they I-bank or consult. Of course, when pressured, he will admit that some students do take jobs in other fields. And, if really pressed...
...addition of a new, competing park alongside Disneyland represents a major gamble with its original 45-year-old property. Yet such parks generate cash far more reliably than, say, the movie business. Which is why Disney is also expanding at Tokyo's DisneySea this year, adding a second gate in Paris next year and drawing up plans for a new Hong Kong Disneyland...
Standing in a line of grumpy fellow travelers and arguing with the gate agent might be the worst thing you can do. "Gate agents," says a former airline executive, "are processors, not problem solvers." Instead head back to the ticket counter, where the personnel tend to be less harassed and more knowledgeable, and have access to better information. Try to be cordial; if the airline reps get snippy, ask to see the airline's on-site customer-service manager. That's the top of the complaint food chain, the person who can make your life pleasant or merely bearable...
...judge this park by its cover. At the front gate to Disney's California Adventure, just across the way from the original Disneyland, the state's name is spelled out in 11 1/2-ft.-high letters, widely spaced to spread across the entrance. Beyond the logo you see a clever mix of shimmering images: the Golden Gate Bridge (it carries the park monorail) above Hollywood Boulevard and, at the far horizon, a flawless Pacific sunset...
...standard sentimental anachronism: nostalgia for an America that never was, for an innocence unclouded by pain or compromise. If that sounds too sweet, then go to an Eminem concert. But there's something tonic about this pretty, compact version of the freeway reality that's just outside the gate. The very notion of getting around California on foot may make a guest giddy. So let the "real" California suffer the brownout blues. At this splendid Disney adventure, visitors need never stop glowing...