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...given the same mundane work as the other first-year analysts," he said. My friend then told his boss he wanted more challenging work.That didn't go over so well. "[The boss] just exploded and went off about how Harvard students think they deserve everything on a silver platter. He told me that backgrounds don't matter in this business and that I should just get my work done quickly and stop complaining," he said...
...liked to say, "If reporters did their job, I wouldn't have mine." I'm not saying that all campaign correspondents are indolent and superficial; just that if you want them to write a probing critique of an opponent, you'd better hand it to them on a silver platter. Campaigns do a whole lot more investigative reporting than investigative reporters...
...Bush was looking for Gore to cross the line on trust and exaggeration," Davis said. "He handed it to him on a silver platter...
...Union, they manage it; at the Algonquin, they’re trying to make it; and at the St. Botolph, they enjoy it.” The Chilton and Somerset are primarily social. Even discussing business in the morning room used to bring a waiter with a silver platter and a small card asking the offender to refrain. “Even now,” says Minturn, “flagrant displays of briefcases and papers, are frowned upon.” Cell phones are a cardinal sin. At the Algonquin, on the other hand, there are no such...
...have been something of a pose, but Bush's macho demeanor in the interview revealed a disturbing lack of restraint, a combination platter of unwelcome traits--stubbornness, as he admits, with side dishes of arrogance and an irritability that couldn't be contained even though things are going well for him. He shows a disturbing blindness to the feelings of those around him, whether it's Letterman or those on death row pleading for clemency whom he mocks (Karla Faye Tucker) or the McCain voter...