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...more--the racially offensive college nickname; the all-night fraternity binge-drinking, sex and hazing orgy; the appearance of the local idiot who turns out to be 10 times as smart as the Nobelists on the faculty; the commencement speech that is different, I mean, really, really interesting; the old-boy and -girl network--how will anyone expect to get a job, especially in journalism...
...rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup d'etat" that the SAT accomplished in the 1950s and '60s, when it booted the Wasp elite by substituting classroom skills for the old-boy network as the key to college admission...
...real advocate of old-boy, new-girl networks," says Wilson, who oversees music business advertising. "I want a Harvard person working with me, and I'm straight up about...
...program would be destroyed" if it were integrated, said Gisela I. Mohring '00. "I don't think [men] would get as much out of it as we would... Women don't have these old-boy networks as men do--programs like these bridge...
...over the past decade, according to the National Golf Foundation in Jupiter, Fla. And the barriers that once kept them off the links during prime tee times (when the deals get done) have been dropping like Annika Sorenstam's putts. The result: one of the last bastions of old-boy networking has got into synch with the oncoming 21st century...