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...gotten a wonderful grade and a glowing comment on a term paper in a course on American Intellectual History,” LaPiana said. “Afterwards, he walked into my office and said ‘I think I can get my head through the door...
...just gotten home for my first visit since accepting my new job as the manager of a student-run publications company, and naturally, my mother couldn’t wait to quiz me about work. When I accepted the job, I thought my extensive experience with newspapers would help, but I quickly found that being a manager was less about producing publications than it was about making sure that other people produced publications...
...nature, unabashedly blunt. As my roommates (or better yet, certain of their more unfortunate past male acquaintances) will attest, I have a difficult time hiding my disdain for people I don’t like or respect. In my personal life, I’ve gotten away with shunning unpalatable people. Among my roommates, it’s become a joke that’s recounted in the long nights before tests or after boy-jerks...
...wanted to write about men who slaved for a fisherman’s wage so they could eventually return to their home country and their wives and kids—but, tongueless, I hadn’t yet gotten anybody to talk...
...really think that there are a lot of people out there, liberals as well as conservatives, Democrats as well as Republicans, who say that this country has just gotten too angry in recent years, too nasty and certainly too vulgar. There?s this tendency to believe that this stuff just happens in societies-societies just evolve; nobody?s to blame. I don?t believe that. I think people are to blame. These aren?t the 100 worst people in America; they?re 100 people who in my view are screwing things up. And some of the names are there...