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Masa Marumo, a second-year student at the Business School, said the new GMAT requirement is fair, particularly since he believes that few People in his classes have "a keen sense in numbers...
...could be ended by just a stroke of the pen--without any preconditions or without setting any unattainable objectives by either party. Yeltsin can sign a decree for his side and I for mine. It does not even require direct contact between Yeltsin and me. Yeltsin may not be keen on meeting with me, but I can assure you I don't have any overwhelming desire to set eyes on him either. Still, I feel there are competing forces around Yeltsin that just won't let him meet with me. We've got to give up petty ambitions, like demands...
...really ought to take lessons from Re, the superb Duchess of Berwick (Marjorie Burren), and the charmingly rakish Cecil (Colin Stokes '96) all of whom play wicked Wilde to the hilt. Each is a marvelous showcase for Wilde's keen observations of petty society cruelties, especially Cecil and his cronies who know how to draw the line only after they have crossed it. Unlike Amendola, they act idle, bored, and in need of distraction. And Burren cuts through her scenes with the impatient airs of someone conniving to fools' detriment. She, too, is flighty but with panache...
...through the 60s, 50s and 40s there were faculty men who weren't keen on teaching women," Wilson says. "There are [reported] cases of when faculty members would walk into a classroom, see only women and leave saying there was no one there...
Iowa voters have seen plenty of Forbes on the small screen; now they're keen to eyeball him in the flesh. He's attracting good crowds--150 to 250 people--who mainly want to make sure that he's not as kooky as that other multimillionaire who once ran for President. His seriousness and earnestness tell them that, while his occasional sheepish grins reveal that he's not an automaton either. He has the courage of his awkwardness. In Council Bluffs, Chris Bridgeford, who owns his own construction business, listened to Forbes and said, "I was hoping to hear something...