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...intelligence is not the only reason that hiring or hanging out with a geek is beneficial. The sports geek might have more of a connection to Joe America with his strings of stats, but another extracurricular geek also has a lot to share. Anyone who is that into [insert random geeky thing here] will contribute some interesting conversations...
...academic one.Yes, Cheek is probably an intelligent and conscientious human being. But in a place where high school superstars come to fade, it is very likely that an individual who has not been in school for almost a decade might well fail to keep up.And here, someone will insert the counterargument that Harvard does make exceptions for some of its student-athletes. Point taken—but only with a grain of salt.Firstly, student-athletes sporting Crimson have, just like their classmates, weathered their share of Advanced Placement tests and SAT tests in the recent past. And, for the most...
...that they hadn’t already been wooing her with all forms of the great potato—fries to hash browns to baked—but this soothed the Irish blood running through Dartboard’s veins. [Dartboard will not hurt you if you choose to insert your own crude potato famine joke here.] • Dartboard was severely disturbed after trekking up to the Yard to watch Primal Scream last week. No, it was not the massive amounts of nudity that frightened her—Dartboard’s made of stronger stuff than that...
...faces of the slaves are to be lighted by a lantern carried by one of the crew. But it isn't working. 'Let me do the light myself,' Spielberg says, holding the lantern so that the slaves' tortured faces are perfectly illuminated. He even shoots a second-unit 'insert' scene of a crumpled letter tossed onto a table. 'I like to sweat the details ... The second-unit stuff is what makes the audience eat the popcorn faster...
...look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;’ etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook...