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...that end, he and fellow screeners hope for high scores on empathy and intelligence (one recommends a minimum IQ of 110). They are worried that a predisposition toward solitude, though fine for monks, may bode ill in pastoral settings. They red-flag callings that seem to have been rebound responses to romantic breakups or other traumas and look for unrealistic job expectations (one of Plante's candidates modeled himself after Mother Teresa, down to the year he expected to accept his Nobel Prize). They are especially vigilant for histories of sexual abuse combined with low impulse control regarding alcohol, gambling...
...next, as she was declared a mediocrity, a crony, "the least qualified choice since Caligula named his horse to the Senate." There was such venom in the attacks that you had to remind yourself that unlike in past court dramas--the slaying of Robert Bork or Richard Nixon's ill-fated henchman G. Harrold Carswell--this was not just about her; it was about him, about Bush's promises and the dream of a permanent conservative revolution. Of all the things a President ever does, this is the one that lasts: he picks the jurists who will chisel and polish...
With these tricks of the trade in mind, Harvard women can seamlessly transition from a labor-intensive life of study shrouded in ill-fitting pants to a labor-intensive life of study shrouded in nicely tailored pants. Together, we can stop ourselves from making horrible mistakes like white pumps, and start to conquer that ineffable feminist quandary of having it all, i.e. being half decent-looking and still attending Harvard...
Even David’s faith is bizarrely pragmatic. When another of his children falls ill, David refuses to eat and prays for a week straight, yet at news of the child’s death, David heads right inside for a meal. The king offers his puzzled servants the curt explanation, “I shall go to [my son], but he shall not return to me.” The more we see of Israel’s fabled king, the less of him we understand...
...favorite wrestler?” they opened, thereby shattering any hope I had that my “other person” reference didn’t scream “me me ME.” At the time, Raven was supposedly in the hospital recovering from an ill-advised Triple Threat Match with the Hardy Boys, so I told them that I liked the Undertaker. One of the boys agreed that he was, indeed, “hard-core.” Outside the confines of WJH, we launched into one of the most animated and honest conversations...