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Such attire was not the norm at Rosenbaum's suburban California high school. Yet, all of the male students attending Harvard interviews from Rosenbaum's high school wore suits--afraid, he recalls, that they would be outstyled by his sharp appearance...
DIRTY WORK (June 5). SNL deportee Norm Macdonald trades in his Weekend Update chair for the role of an evil prankster in the revenge-for-hire business. Do let us know how it turns...
...already been made. Banks have been buying other banks for decades, and while it hasn't always been a joyride, since their low ebb in 1990 bank stocks have risen nearly twice as fast as the average stock, which itself has risen nearly twice as fast as the historical norm. They've jumped over Standard & Poor's 500 every year since 1994, according to David Berry, research director at Keefe Bruyette & Woods, an investment firm specializing in banks. The outsize gains this decade have left bank stocks looking plenty expensive. Based on estimated 1998 earnings, and relative...
...about a Core Moral Reasoning class in which the same group of students (all men, interestingly) lead the discussion every time? Or reports of concentration tutorials in which everyone--even the instructor--seems just to be going through the motions? Though such sections are the exception rather than the norm, it is troubling that they exist...
...Stone Age art, there is one shared characteristic that seems universal," Pontius says. "The human face always shows a consistent deviation from the norm in the configuration of the eye, nose and forehead...