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Anand Vaishnav of the Globe, Beth Potier of the Harvard Gazette and the Times’ Karen Arenson came to the education beat from different backgrounds in journalism...
...Potier, who works in the Harvard News Office and writes for its weekly publication about University goings-on, said she had different concerns when writing a story about Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby’s campaign to promote charter schools. Where the other reporters stressed the need for balance, she focuses more simply on getting Harvard educators’ views across...
...news office, we’re charged with using our access to get a better story,” Potier said. “My main audience is the Harvard faculty and staff...I didn’t really need to show the other side...
...this was some kind of sorority," says Mike, completely baffled by the set-up he has stumbled upon. To be fair, the recovery center is a type of sorority, though the coterie includes one man. The females each represent some stereotype about women. The earthy Ruby (B.U. student Jan Potier) does a marvelous job of conveying her sexual appetite. Lisa (Kate Fletcher '99) is a meek girl who constantly vomits because of side effects from her prescriptions. Heather (Claire Schwab '99) is a Polyanna in charge of these spoiled brats, even though her character is just as clueless...
...rather an ordinary halfway house. Sarnat is more attuned to moments of deadpan humor than sticking to feelings of absolute despair and frustration. Like a talk-show, "WASTED!" has an episodic quality; the scenes are quick and short, with numerous fade-outs in between. Some of the actors, including Potier and Jacobs, have enough savvy to know that as much as their characters are supposed to be real people, their personas are meant to subvert the stereotypical notions of estranged youth...