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...every first-round resume interview into a therapy session. An interviewer would ask me about my extracurriculars, we would get to talking about competitiveness at Harvard, and I would finally add, "Yeah, a lot of people here seem to do things because they feel it's expected of them." "Hmm," my interviewer would smile, "I hear it gets particularly bad around this time of the year." Sooner or later, my interviewers got a whiff of my real interests, the way police dogs sniff out two kilos of hash in a carry...
...this desperation might well be correlated with that vile statistic that makes this place sound like a eugenics farm: "85 percent of Harvard people find their spouses here." Hmm, just imagining the ego wars that go on in a Harvard-Radcliffe marriage will cause heartbearn. It'd be like the Clash of the Titans and "Moonlighting" all rolled into one and on acid. This would make a better statistic: "85 percent of Harvard people find their spouses ere...and 98 percent of them divorce them after two weeks of pure hell...
...teenage mogul. Hmm, where's the downside...
...drama dares to powerize the paranoia up to big-screen voltage. "The show is too big to call a cult now," observes actor-comedian Harry Shearer. "You could put the name X Files on a pack of cigarettes and people would buy it." (Hmm: "Cancer Man says, 'Smoke these and you too can head a vast government conspiracy.'") Our bet: with the top-rated series among young people as its base, the film will find $100 million worth of viewers ready to inhale...
...classroom filled with a steady, affirmative murmur of "mmm-hmm's" punctuated by the occasional shout of "You go, girlfriend!" Sonya J. Wilson opens her soul a peep...