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...Bring on the Cheesecake,” examines society’s conception of beauty and was well-received at the 1999 National Forensic League national tournament. Despite the speech’s caliber, Jackson never suspected it would be pirated. “Maybe it sounds na??ve,” she says, “but it never crossed my mind that someone would have the gall to do this...
...fine education. A proponent of the Senior Gift could further accuse me of blind ignorance—the Senior Gift surely does not endow some malevolent discretionary fund that Harry Lewis uses to enforce a lack of fun over Harvard students. I am not, of course, so na??ve as to believe this; instead, I simply believe that the point must be made to the administration that we will not tolerate neglect for four years, only to give blindly as alumni...
...women” should be approached with a fair dose of intrigue—and skepticism. The proposition that scantily clad final club groupies, carbo-loading varsity athletes and slightly neurotic left of center journalists can all find something meaningful in the content is ambitious, if not perhaps also na??ve. Add to that the guide’s stated desire to serve the testosterone crowd as well—quite the lofty ambition for a book with just four men on its 58 person staff —and the guide seems even less likely...
...game conformed to my expectations. I was disturbed by the casual manner with which the commentators disclosed that Kurt Warner, the Rams’ quarterback, would be starting despite needing injections to deal with pain related to an injury sustained earlier in the season. (Rather than being so na??ve as to think this unusual, it is worrisome that medication and constant physical therapy are considered a regular part of athletics, professional or otherwise.) And I was irritated when I began to think about the obscene amounts of money being spent on tickets, advertisements and players’ salaries...
...graduating seniors facing a fiercely competitive job market, the age of free-flowing venture capital, amorphous dress codes and foosball tables in the workplace is a shockingly distant memory. The na??ve enthusiasm of the dot-com generation is all but dead. And yet, it’s nice to think back—on the one hand, reminiscing about the easy money, and on the other, chuckling knowingly at the mistakes of those touting the infallibility of internet start-up success. The timing is perfect, then, for a production that offers haggard veterans of the recruiting process...