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...carried Friday’s pageant on the strength of her violin concerto, a platform advocating music education in public schools, floral pattern evening gown and blue one-piece bathing suit...
...abstract pattern resembling strands of DNA, will be woven into the floor...
...students are content to take part in extracurriculars for their own sakes; involvement is almost always contingent upon rising up the ranks to a leadership position. Harvard students almost always led their chosen extracurriculars in high school—and they aren’t keen to change that pattern after arriving in Cambridge. Those students who do not make the cut almost always leave to join (or form) other organizations where they feel that they can make more of a mark. Harvard extracurriculars make McKinsey’s famous two-year “up or out?...
...criteria of any truly noble and worthy fantasy profession. This career provides comfortable pay, a reasonable amount of fame, a ridiculously low level of difficulty, requires little or no prior experience and places one in close proximity to attractive women who are willing to overlook the male-pattern baldness and overweight physique that are Mother Nature’s way of amusing herself at man’s expense...
...Regardless of the tone taken in Washington, however, North Korea appears bent on ratcheting up the confrontation. Many Korea analysts had long viewed Pyongyang's nuclear brinkmanship as part of a pattern of extortion - acting in a menacing way, and then promising good behavior in exchange for economic assistance. But many fear that Kim Jong Il may have decided that a nuclear deterrent is the only way to ward off the threat of U.S. military action to smash his regime, and that while pressure from neighbors such as China - which is North Korea's economic life-support system right...