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...student body prepared me to hate the Core, but I really enjoyed it. I always thought it was a great idea, and many of the things I was taught there stayed with me, even more than many things I was focusing on at the time. THC: The Mayan myth of Genesis and their “Tree of Life” are essential to your film. How did you first come across it?DA: Well, you find those things with research. THC: So it was more of a means than an end. The idea for “The Fountain?...
...School in 1961, “Because you don’t make as much money in not-for-profits, you get a lot of responsibility much more quickly.” And the notion that Harvard students forsake public service for high-salary investment banking positions is a myth, according to Daniella T. Gilbert ’09. She interned at San Francisco-based Bay Area Youth Fund for Education, a group committed to assisting high school students graduate and become the first in their families to go to college, this summer. “Sure, there are people...
...play sports ("Business is a game and you can win it"), the Nice authors counsel women to help their enemies and compliment the competition: "We completely disagree with the conventional wisdom that 'nice guys finish last' and 'no good deed goes unpunished.' Our culture has helped to propagate the myth of social Darwinism--of the survival of the fittest--that the cutthroat 'me vs. you philosophy' wins the day." (Alas, it may be that neither style will prove effective. A 2004 Stanford Graduate School of Business study found that "women who enact stereotypically supportive feminine behaviors may be liked...
...Harry Potter: shake down a Folk and Myth professor until they teach you some bad-ass spells. While you’re at it, steal their academic robes and a broom from their utility closet to complete the look. 2) Rock the lanyard and “Harvard 2010” T-shirt...all the way to UHS, after furtively drinking plastic handle vodka in Lionel. Yet again, you’re a freshman. 3) Drown...you’re Harry Elkins Widener! 4) Put together some writing, publish it once in awhile, and have nobody read it?...
...eating disorders report that every year, they're ministering to more middle-aged and older patients, mostly women. The condition strikes people across ethnic and economic lines. Says Margo Maine, a psychotherapist and an eating-disorder specialist based in West Hartford, Conn., and a co-author of The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect (Wiley; 2005): "Anorexia is an equal-opportunity disease...