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...plasters the campus with posters for career introductory meetings, and seniors head to Neiman Marcus for their all-important interview suits, the exotic tang of real-world jobs has begun to flavor the air around Harvard’s ivory towers. Students debate whether to take the McKinsey offer, or head to law school—but one career option seems to be significantly underappreciated by job seekers and OCS alike: secretarial work...
...recently given "U.S. Presidents for Dummies" as a gag gift, but paging through it, I found myself pulled in not so much by the book's facts as by its opinions. For instance, the author, University of Texas at Tyler political science professor Marcus Stadelmann, calls Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner who flubbed Reconstruction, "a horrible human being." When I was in school, textbooks were not that honest. Of course, when I was in school, textbooks still said the U.S. had never lost a war, and I started kindergarten four months after the fall of Saigon...
...than plastic made to look like garnet or jade. But this season's top rock is genuine turquoise, valued for its warmth and earthy appeal. "It's all about the ethnic, folkloric point of view. And what says that more than turquoise?" asks Ken Downing, fashion spokesman for Neiman Marcus. "It was such a great look in the '70s, it had to come around again." And again. Word is that turquoise and other rocks will dominate the fall collections, though renewed interest in episodes of The Flintstones seems remote...
...Marcus insinuates himself into Will's life. And About a Boy, which starts out as a cool, gently exaggerated farce (and never loses that antic spirit), begins to insinuate itself into our souls. Hugh Grant shares with the immortal Cary an ability to go dark and distracted on us without losing our sympathy for his eager, morally educable side. This talent helps to ground a comedy that includes, among other things, a carelessly murdered duck, a funnily murdered rendition of Killing Me Softly With His Song and a distinctly unmerry vegetarian Christmas party. But the film is always true...
...single dad (which, naturally, entails having a pretend child), he joins S.P.A.T. (Single Parents, Alone Together) and gets less and more than he bargained for. There's only one attractive woman to hit on, but she introduces him, via a picnic, to her best pal's son Marcus (a marvelously uncute Nicholas Hoult). He's bullied at school, and his mom (Toni Collette) is a mess, clinging to an outmoded hippie lifestyle and suicidally inclined. The kid sees in detached and manipulative Will a surrogate father whose isolation matches his own. Maybe together they can mobilize themselves and join...