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...deserve it? How about those who were accepted to Teach for America, or signed by the top investment banks and consulting firms? The fellowship game makes us scratch our heads as well. How does one Harvard graduate get paid to do little more than drink beer at a posh British university while another must work multiple part-time jobs to pay his living expenses so that he can spend his days doing non-profit volunteer work in Arab East Jerusalem...
...less than a day, members of the class of 2003 can officially call themselves Harvard graduates. Such a title contains countless perks—the ability to wear crimson with pride, drink cocktails at posh Harvard clubs and give one’s children a leg up in college admissions are just the beginning. But there are potential drawbacks associated with the Ivy seal of approval. The perfect example: the proverbial “H-Bomb” and its inevitable mixed reactions. Some treat Harvard grads with awe, others with revulsion. Harvard Professor of Psychology Ellen J. Langer admits...
After months of recovering from an attempt on his life that put eight bullets in his left side, Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, was ready to party. At his first outing in 1998, at the posh Jadriyah Equestrian Club, he used high-powered binoculars to survey the crowd of friends and family from a platform high above the guests. He saw something he liked, recalls his former aide Adib Shabaan, who helped arrange the party. Uday tightened the focus on a pretty 14-year-old girl in a bright yellow dress sitting with her father...
Uday demonstrated an insatiable sexual appetite. Five nights a week, some two dozen girls, all of them referred to him by his friends, were taken to the posh Baghdad Boat Club on the bank of the Tigris to meet Uday, close associates of his confirm. After drinks, music and dancing, the young women would be lined up like beauty queens for Uday's approval, and all but one or two would be dismissed. Those who stayed would join Uday in his bedroom at the club and leave with a gift of 250,000 dinars ($125), gold jewelry or sheer lingerie...
...gas/while NBC eats horse's a__" (a reference to the horse-rectum-eating challenge on Fear Factor). They're called upfronts because they're designed to entice advertisers to pay billions up front for next season's ads, and the deals are lubricated by cocktails and carpaccio at posh afterparties. It's essentially a TV stock market, in which the moneymen hope to invest in hits-to-be on their...