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...become fashionable to take a menial job--nanny, say, or assistant to Anna Wintour--and then snitch about it in a thinly veiled novel. Anyone have a problem with that? Pine used to do publicity for Miramax, and she puts the grade-A material she gathered there to excellent use in the tale of Karen Jacobs, a young woman who leaves a dignified but dull job for a terrifying, exhausting--but occasionally glamorous--one at the fictional Glorious Pictures, where even the office dog gets its teeth bleached. The plot is gossamer thin, but the dirt is deep, dark...
...business is removing temptation. The codes of dress and behavior are strict. Students must have regular haircuts ("no bleaching or 'off' colors are allowed"). Students must wear socks and closed-toe shoes. Boys cannot wear earrings or have any body piercing. Students may not wear makeup during school. Through Grade 5, the girls wear plaid jumpers and leggings, but the head scarf called a hijab is optional; the boys wear navy dress pants and light blue shirts. Older girls must wear the hijab (light blue for middle schoolers, gray or white for high schoolers) and a calf-length navy...
Fifty percent of today’s graduating class, about 790 students, will receive summa cum laude, magna cum laude, or cum laude in field degrees. Up to an additional 10 percent of departing seniors will receive cum laude degrees recognizing their overall high grade point averages (GPAs), without being recommended by their concentrations...
...student entrepreneurs, it’s not always the idea that comes first. Daniel “Zak” Tanjeloff ’08, who has been doing entrepreneurial work since selling Beanie Babies online in the seventh grade, created an internet classifieds service called H-Ads simply because he wanted to start a business on campus. “I thought that was a nice business where people give you money and you don’t have to do much but print their ad,” says Tanjeloff, “You don?...
Marriage was the “natural next step” for high school sweethearts Joshua Suskewicz ’05 and Rachel E. Finkel. Mr. Suskewicz, a 22-year-old English concentrator in Currier House, met Ms. Finkel, also 22, in 10th grade English class at Frisch High School in Paramus...