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...student body's wealth is the admissions office's fault. Poorer people tend not to go to the country's best schools, and applications from the lower income levels may be scarce. But it is about time the College admitted to its elitism and took "socioeconomic" off the list of diversities at Harvard...
...telephone Bells were as family friendly and progressive as the New Deal. Telephone families often ran three generations deep. You couldn't blame them for howling; they knew a good thing was ending. Even today AT&T offers a menu of programs that would make any worker's wish list, such as child- and elder-care resource referral services, leaves of absence for parents of newborns and the newly adopted, as well as time off for family care...
...face in the sometimes indimidating first year of college that fill the bulk of The Real Freshman Handbook. "It's not that I made a huge number of bloopers freshman year," Hanson told The Crimson, "but it actually would have helped me a lot if I had a stain list...
Hanson's friends, though all from Minnesota, attend a variety of schools around the country, ensuring that the book is not too Harvard-oriented for its intended audience. Some elements of college life, after all, are universal. What student has not wanted a handy list of pickup lines for the laundry room? Hanson provides a few: "Hey, baby, what's your setting?" Or perhaps: "Are you feeling dizzy? 'Cause you been tumbling through my head...
Fitzpatrick also helps by keeping the range of tempos and melodies varied from song to song. Even for a seasoned Eve's Plum concert-goer, the set list never loses its momentum. The intro drum beats to "Jesus Loves You" get the crowd bouncing on its feet as the audience anticipates the bright, saccharine song. Fitzpatrick stares listeners in the face and grins while singing "They say I'm damned to hell/Well, I'll be damned." The band answers the crowd's expectations, and people applaud the pop song as if begging for an immediate reprise. But the band...