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...movie end get ample acreage and front-page positioning to review movies that fewer people will see in theaters than tune into an average episode of "Two Guys and a Girl." Meanwhile, we TV folk duke it out for space with the bridge column. A TV critic, no mater how witty, fat and proficient of thumb, will never become a syndicated celebrity. And above all, every May, film critics jet off to Cannes to sample the year's coming wares on the shores of the French Riviera...
...Obara had graduated from Keio University (alma mater of newly elected Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi) with degrees in politics and law, become a naturalized Japanese citizen and legally changed his name to Obara. Once he had expunged his Korean lineage, Obara, with his wealth and his educational background, could have entered the nation's ruling élite, becoming, perhaps, a top bureaucrat or corporate chieftain. Instead he became a man of his times, leading a desultory, undistinguished existence, punctuated by his disastrous forays into real estate speculation. He formed an investment company, Plant, in 1988, relatively late in the bubble...
...Then there’s the matter of Davis-Mullen’s bar application, where the candidate was found to have sat for the bar exam without the necessary prerequisite of completing her studies in law school. Sharma said that Davis-Mullen’s alma mater, The New England School of Law, misinformed Davis-Mullen about her readiness to graduate...
...January, Desai talked to Harvard about a possible donation to the English department. "But it just didn't strike any of us as the right time," he says. So no chairs for his alma mater, although Desai may have taught college fund raisers a thing or two about irrational exuberance. "Next time the university is approached by an unknown donor," says Washington's Arkans, "this will make us a little more cautious...
...shed the egotistical (and now slothful) Harvard stereotype as we scramble trying to land unpaid internships and we vie, viciously, for the handful of fellowships and job openings available to us. I don't mean to protest the way many alumni have chosen to give back to their alma mater--I, too, find it of the utmost importance that each elm in the Yard be endowed--but it's frustrating to know that what was once networking in its most virile, potent form has degenerated into a JobTrak computer program...