Word: learnedness
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Last Friday at the 2007 Career Forum, as students and recruiters exchanged monotonic pleasantries inside the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, one high-pitched noise rose above the din. “Woohoo!” The Pillsbury Doughboy stood in front of the General Mills (GM) table , instantly recognizable...
By choosing to go to that little peninsula dangling between China and Japan, I had chosen to uproot myself. During my three months in Korea this summer, if there’s one thing I learned, it’s this: I don’t want to live in...
This was a character-building experience of a certain sort. It built vast reserves of sarcasm and irony-tools of the journalistic trade, I later learned-which came in very handy when the New York Mets brought National League baseball back to the city in 1962. Those first Mets were...
Until a few years ago... when under new management, a Jewish owner from Brooklyn, a Latino general manager from Queens, an African-American manager from Brooklyn-ethnic New York guys, outer-borough guys like me-the Mets began to hire some wonderful talent, and a sizzling crop of younger players...
The stark picture of the emaciated French-born actress Isabelle Caro - who stands 5 feet, 5 inches tall (1.65 m) and weighs just 70 pounds (32 kg) - is accompanied by the words: "No Anorexia." Caro, now 27, says she has suffered from the disorder since she was a teenager. In...