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...deans addresses the difficult and awkward situation of having students’ resident deans act as both their advocates and judges. Under the new rules, personal advisors to students undergoing Ad Board review are also allowed expanded capacity to guide their advisees through Ad Board procedures. In the interest of reducing student anxiety during personal appearances before the Ad Board, such appearances will now take place in front of a much smaller sub-committee of typically six or fewer members (as opposed to the entire Ad Board...
...BOMB strives to keep its quality high. It solicits all types of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork that reflect an interest in gender, sex, or sexuality. “The editorial board seeks out really cool and challenging material,” said Garland...
...rent to Platinum Sound, a recording studio co-owned by Jean; $100,000 for the "musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert;" and $250,000 to Telemax, S.A., "a for-profit Haiti company in which Jean and Duplessis were said to 'own a controlling interest...
Compare the essays of “Silk Parachute” to those of McPhee’s “New Yorker” colleague, Malcolm Gladwell: although the writers share an interest in people, their processes are polar opposites. McPhee starts with a detailed discussion of a topic, be it “eccentric food” or Europe’s chalk country, and allows his topic to elucidate a truism about society with such finesse that it seems accidental. Rather than spend pages reveling in the significance of what he has found—like Gladwell?...
This constantly running motor hasn’t just helped in college; it may have been the key to building O’Connor’s interest in wrestling from the outset—when the grappler’s 3rd-grade PE teacher noted the future star’s potential...