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...case, Gore doesn't have to make any decisions soon. Meanwhile, he's enjoying his red-carpet moment, even as he pleads that he's a little bewildered by it all. The experience, he says, reminds him of a New Yorker cartoon that used to hang on the wall of his Senate office. It showed a funny-looking dog riding a tricycle onstage in an opera house, to rapturous applause from a fancy audience. Gore can relate to what the caption says the dog is thinking: "I don't know why they like this, but I'm going to keep...
...Jorge Domínguez, who is a hard act to follow.” A picture of Simmons will one day greet those who enter the Blue Room—the Center’s main seminar room—where the photographs of her six predecessors now hang. “It would be fine with me if they would wait until after I was done, so I didn’t have to stare at it all the time,” she said. Having lived in the Philippines, New Zealand, and London, Simmons is a seasoned international...
...scariest for liberal arts graduates, because so much of what we’ve bled ourselves dry to learn will be completely irrelevant to our success in the future. Long on mental acuity but short on discrete skills, our diplomas act more like fall-retarding parachutes than free-flying hang gliders. English concentrators are going to work for investment banks. Reports on the market size for ball-bearings in Ohio and impenetrable mutual fund prospectuses will replace papers on Dante’s reinvention of the novel. Forced to redefine our individual expertises by the exigencies of the job market...
...course.“I still think that had we raced a little better race we could have gotten second,” varsity bow-man Brian Aldrich said. “But with the way Cornell rowed today—it would have been tough for us to hang with them.”The race for second reached its zenith in the final 500 meters, when Navy, Harvard, and Yale appeared in a near-deadlock as the boats came into view. The Midshipmen pushed forward to claim second, but a bow ball battle between Harvard and Yale kept...
...said. And while many eagerly await the opening of the new Lamont café in the fall, McNamara thinks it will exacerbate the problem. “It’s not appealing to me because I don’t come to the library to hang out,” he said. “I come to the library to get my work done.” But with few spaces open all night, students have no choice but to study at Lamont all night. And the temptation to take breaks and socialize is often too great. Lamont...