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...hour, of which the agency receives a flat fee of around $10, leading to billings last year of $100,000. The Experts, in Wellesley, Mass., posted $23 million in sales last year by placing computer consultants who earn up to $120 an hour. One of the oldest professional agencies is Accountemps, a franchise outfit that supplies accountants through some 100 offices in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Israel...
Harvard (1-1) and William & Mary (3-0) have one notable thing in common--each is one of the two oldest universities in the nation (you can figure out which is which for yourself...
...sure, Banks' transformation one of the world's oldest extant theatrical forms into an accessible Western production--is a daunting one. And his use and integration of other media--photography, film and music--is both effective and inventive. The problems lie rather in a confusing story line and in the stiff, stylized acting that slowly deadens the strange and haunting power of Yukio Mishima's 1955 adaptation...
...year ago: The Harvard-William & Mary game (whose eighth edition occurs this weekend) always evokes some measure of interest as it pits the nation's two oldest universities against each other in gridiron competition. But last year's game was actually a quite exciting contest in its own right...
Chicago Psychiatrist Sidney Weissman derisively calls it "the old Sears catalog" of psychological tests. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is indeed one of the oldest, longest and most cumbersome tests in use today. Millions of people in at least 46 countries, from psychotics to normal job seekers to Soviet cosmonauts, have puzzled their way through its seemingly endless array of odd and eerie statements (samples: "Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over"; "My soul sometimes leaves my body"; "In walking, I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"). Now, at age 44, the archetypal test...