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...brought along a beautiful Adams House sophomore who was working as an intern at the local public television station. "What an interesting restaurant," she said as we walked in, picking up the tail end of the morning's boxing seminar. I smiled and bid the counterman to throw the brisket on the slicer...
...intern-friend scanned the menu--a decaying chalk-board with a few scrawlings on it--and finally asked for a Tab and a tuna-fish sandwich. The counterman produced an old can of tuna from the back of a shelf under the grill and spilled some Pepsi into a highball glass...
...lowly intern who spent most of the summer writing about developed' verbal and mathematical abilities and the Standard Error of Measurement, I soon stopped trying to explain that I wasn't anywhere near the tests, and that I didn't work for ETS at all. "You see, the College Board, which is in New York, owns the tests, and it has a contract with the guys in Princeton, who own the questions on the tests...
...rather whimsical, and unsolicited, job application had run sort of perpendicular to the Board's vague inquiries as to whether anyone knew anyone who'd like to be an intern. I wasn't related to anybody in particular, and no one's guidance counselor had any prior reports on me. All these qualities made me the ideal conveyer of the collective "student viewpoint" on anything they happened to ask me about...
Anyone who has ever spent some time on the Hill or in a federal agency will catch Fromson exaggerating left and right. For example, a housemate of the author describers her first day as a legislative intern: "I drafted legislation in the morning, lunched with the Senator at noon, and spent the afternoon in the Senate cloakroom counting votes with the lobbyists." The second day she probably argued a case before the Supreme Court, lectured the President on foreign policy, and climbed the Washington Monument...