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...same time she also realized that graduate school would be somewhat of an inevitability, even though she liked her job at Seventeen. Her first job at the magazine was not, as her character Rosalie summed up someone in an entry-level jobs as “assistant-ish looking person holding a stack of manila folders...
Growing up in an era where the U.N. has been made to symbolize peace, it is taboo in educated circles to reject the institution, even scoffed at as puerile or cowboy-ish. But the blind homage paid to the world body on this, the organization’s birthday, should not cloud the fact that the U.N., by virtue of its membership’s extremely divergent interests, is an impotent organization, powerless to truly halt affronts to human rights...
...Germany requiring a more intrusive inspection regime to satisfy international concerns over the potential for Tehran's nuclear energy program to camouflage a bomb program. Two prime candidates for further testing of the Bush administration's doctrine of preemptive warfare suddenly seem to morphing into exercises in Cold War-ish containment, engagement and coexistence...
Esquire called the book by the former George Magazine executive editor “unreflective, pompous, craven, exploitative, hanger-on-ish, and just horrendously written...
Most of the photos by Nicholson Price ’03 unfortunately rise little above the mediocre. His most striking image, however, operates within the cliché of superimposition, but does so surprisingly well. A sculpture of a founding-father-ish figure in long robes, behind a humanoid angel arcing toward heaven, fills the left and center of the picture. A stone lion sits off to the side; eagles guard above. In the sky to the right, though, floats a meditative woman standing against a tree, her chin filling the ground between the angel’s head and shoulders...