Word: hellos
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...find trips to Office of Career Services frustrating. It’s not that the officers there don’t mean well. Interested in teaching? They have a nice little stapled booklet they give you. Interested in the corporate world? “Hello! How are you? Have a piece of cake.” Suddenly, you’ve been invited to luncheons and brunches with Morgan Stanley and Goldman-Sachs. It seems the only jobs that they can guide you towards are in investment banking, consulting, and the like...
Before that semester, they would have brushed by each other without saying hello...
...emerged from the Oval Office into the narrow hallway just outside it, I ran into Vice President Cheney. He was in his overcoat and was clearly in a hurry. He muttered a brief hello to me as he asked an aide who had come up behind me, "Do you have it?" The aide handed him a letter, which he tucked into his pocket as he rushed out. As I would soon discover, the letter was the President's answer to the appeal sent by Senator Hagel and his three colleagues the week before. In his reply, the President restated...
...championships, their annual showdown with the Red Sox wouldn’t be such an electric, riveting affair. Would you rather see the confusing parity that now exists in the NFL, where every year is a crapshoot, and teams come out of nowhere one year (hello Carolina) before quickly fading the next (goodbye Tampa...
...watch the news. When the boy flips to Fox News, President Bush is on the screen, announcing the start of the war. But there are some things even the most modern technology can't surmount. "What is he saying?" one man asks. Satellite, whose grasp of English stretches to "Hello," stares intently at the screen, as if trying to find just the right words. "He says it's going to rain," the boy replies. Such wry scenes come thick and fast in the first half of Turtles Can Fly, the third feature from Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, which started...