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...that time of year again. With a tea here and a soiree there, Radcliffe is inviting women of the class of 1998 to pretend that the "college" has played a key role in their undergraduate careers. And Harvard, needless to say, has also concocted a mechanism to get its graduating class in the philanthropic spirit: The Senior Gift Fund, marrying the structure of a pyramid scheme with old fashioned peer pressure, rivals anything the Scientologists could come up with...
About 20 minutes into the party we found out that one of my friend's brothers had just had oral sex in his Nissan Maxima with a girl he had just met. Needless to say, no one wanted to drive home...
...Justice is backing Ellerth's appeal, which runs against the argument of the President's private attorney," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "The Justice Department is trying to counter what it perceives to be an anti-plaintiff drift in the courts." Needless to say, this would be one administration victory unlikely to get the boss lighting up a stogie...
Kohl's most endearing trait is his straight-forward, bluntly honest voice--one might surmise that after thirty years experience with school-age children, the author's gift for clearing out needless discourse has been honed to a razor's edge. Simple diction, while vital for pedantry, has its drawbacks in the modern non-fiction market: every once in a while Kohl's hand can be felt patting the reader on the head, as if recruiting another kindergartner into his throngs of supporters. This is not to say that condescension (if it can be called such) is not totally displeasing...
...college years, when people are trying to figure out what they're going to do with their lives, offered lots of dramatic possibilities. So they set about creating a group of characters: Campbell (Eion Bailey), Henry (Scott Bairstow) and Nell (Jennifer Garner), who have been friends for 20 years (needless to say, Nell has been involved with both guys). They live in Los Angeles, professionally and romantically adrift...