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While we work our magic, the ropes guide the line back-and-forth. I begin to fantasize that our ordeal will culminate in a ride on Space Mountain, but I am sorely disappointed. Instead, our reward for successfully navigating the rat maze and completing our applications is a good old-fashioned strip search. At the very front of the line, a team of security guards is closely inspecting each auditioner. Apparently MTV is concerned that someone may try to beat some humility into Carson Daly's smug noggin...
During my first year in graduate school, I faced a difficult personal crisis which hindered my academic progress. My network of friends helped immensely during this ordeal, but they were too invested in my well-being to offer an impartial sounding board for some of my concerns. A close friend confided in me that he had used the mental health services at UHS and recommended them highly; on this advice, I saw a counselor about six times over a period of several months...
After this ordeal, which preceded a long media nightmare, the Lewinsky family wants to wake up with at least enough cash to pay off Monica's legal bills and those of her friends. Monica's alone are estimated at between $1.5 million and $2 million. She stands to make perhaps $3 million from the book and a British-TV interview that will be sold to stations around the globe...
...years at Sports Illustrated. Her first week here was a TIME trial of sorts: the magazine had to be updated at 5 a.m. Sunday with the news of King Hussein's death. "It made me think, 'Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore,'" says Wulf, who managed the ordeal gracefully. But then, with four children, she's used to being on 24-hour call...
...Harvard has always offered its own ordeal, its own version of 'reality,' its own way of giving form to freedom--the contests in the classroom and elsewhere, where children of wealth compete to prove their excellence. Nobody who's 'got it made' has to strive for A's at Harvard, or go out for the varsity, or try for the lead in undergraduate plays, or 'comp' for the Crimson, or do much of anything except get by and get into the Porcellian Club. Everything is optional, as most things always will be for these children of the rich." Nelson...