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...Coyula-Cowley says, and the only dictator clever enough to get people to call him by his first name. Why, everybody loves “Fidel”—especially the movie stars, left-of-left congressmen, and American academics who are always flying down to hobnob with...
Bumbling university president got your school in a public relations mess? Who needs him? Coach Murphy can hobnob with the best of ’em. And boy does he like wine and cheese...
...year graduate students. The “puppet show” is actually a multi-media presentation, involving music, slides, video, crude animations and, of course, puppets, to create sketch comedy pieces involving prominent members of the physics Faculty. Before their roast, Faculty members join other graduate students to hobnob over beer and chips, and then file into Jefferson 250 to await their fate at the hands of their former and current students...
Every May, TV-network heads invite thousands of advertising execs to the Manhattan upfronts to watch clips of the new fall shows, then hobnob at sybaritic parties. The goal: to sell ads "up front" with slick talk and boundless ratings predictions. It is a capitalist orgy where art and commerce have one too many vodka tonics and end up in bed. I swallowed the bombast (and the finger food) and lived to tell the tale...
Elite seminars, with no room for falling behind. Lots of students, with room either to hobnob your way to great opportunities or to spend a Harvard career away from the books. Lots of hours in lab that just aren’t worth it. We all carry around such stereotyped versions of Harvard concentrations, built on hearsay and snap evaluations. Wouldn’t it be great to have a pithy summary of concentrations with actual numbers behind...